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From: heller@akh104.rh.psu.edu (Andrew K. Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 or NetBSD 1.0 or BSDI 1.1?
Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:46:52 GMT
Organization: Penn-State Ghoull Labs
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First off I am using BSDI 1.1 (ala BSD/386)
My "contract" will soon expire and I do not wish to pay a few $$$
for a personal copy. so... what public system would I use?
Linux is out..cause its just plain ASSBACKWARDS from what I consider
"normal."
I have been using FreeBSD binaries and sources quite will with BSDI.
A long time ago I used NetBSD..but it couldn't handle IDE drives very well
without crashing everything... that was 0.9. The infamous WesternDigital
wedge....that and my shells would always lock up.
Now, as I understand it..FreeBSD is more PCish while NetBSD is for just
about every machine under the sun.
Which is more BSDI compatible/similar in function?
and... what the heck is going to be the BIG difference between Net1.0 and
Free2.0 (or 1.1.5.1.....e+3) ?
Also...where can I purchase the LATEST COMPLETE... CDROM of this stuff?
When I say COMPLETE...I mean: elm, emacs, lisp, pascal, X and everything
for it...including tn3270 (the cool one 3.0?), LaTeX (and xdvi..etc..)
AFS, etc..etc... I have a TON of stuff for BSDI and I want at least
all of this stuff on the public bsd system.
Thanks,
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Andrew K. Heller - Making the world safe once again.
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