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From: Stormy@StormCloud.MsState.EDU (Stormy Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Differences between Net/Free BSD?
Date: 22 Nov 1994 04:37:25 GMT
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Bill Heiser wrote:
One thing I have noticed with the NetBSD 1.0 and FreeBSD 2.0A releases
is that the FreeBSD 2.0A INSTALLATION program uses a graphical interface
(much like the LINUX Slackware installation program). I looked briefly
at the NetBSD 1.0 installation and found that it did not do such things
as automatically determining disk geometry.
Yes, the installation program is beautiful, not quite as automated as that of
Slackware Linux, but still much better (in gui terms) than the NetBSD install.
I eventually got NetBSD installed on my system, but it took 5 or 6 attempts
to get through the disk partitioning part.
Based on this and a previous positive experience with FreeBSD, I went with
FreeBSD 2.0A on my system. I'm open to comments though if anyone else
has other feedback on this topic. I, too, hope this can be discussed
intelligently rather than degenerating into a flame war. I think there
are lots of people who would like to know the real differences between
FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Another question I just thought to ask Net/FreeBSD users, how much ram (not
swap) does your system use with the standard inet and logging daemons and one
shell? My Linux box uses 4.5 meg of ram with one tcsh. I haven't yet figured
out how to tell how much ram I'm using with NetBSD. Swap yes, but not actual
ram.
Be happy...
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