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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: Easiest to port: Free, Net, or 386 (bsd)?
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 00:32:58 GMT
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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.

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Jesus Monroy Jr                                          jmonroy@calon.com
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