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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: Easiest to port: Free, Net, or 386 (bsd)? Message-ID: <jmonroyCzyC6z.AoM@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <3b2k9q$11q@hustle.rahul.net> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 00:32:58 GMT Lines: 24 Steven Bjork (bjork@rahul.net) wrote: : Seeing as how there's a *lot* of software running on sunos4 : that I'd like to run on one of the 3b's (oops) Free B's, : my question is... Which of freebsd, netbsd or 386bsd has : the least pain of porting involved for big stuff such : as Kerberos, etc? I have a port of Kerberos V4 sort of : running on bsdi and it was not just a matter of typing "make." : It's difficult to answer your question clearly. NetBSD has the wide cross-platform implementation, so help in porting might be more readily accessable. Bill Jolitz, author of 386BSD, has always toried to maintain a high degree of portability in 386BSD. However, Support for 386BSD is still lacking. I would recommend NetBSD, if time is of the essence. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@calon.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________