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From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD (Information please, no flames or advocacy please)
Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:05:38 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
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Stephan Melin (melin@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de) wrote:
> But are there major differences? If so - which are the differences?

I don't know that much about NetBSD, but I do know I had a much easier
time getting FreeBSD set up and running than I did NetBSD.


> And last but not least: Which one do you think is the more stable one? - I do 
> not want to spend my time debugging kernels, device drivers etc. (yet)...

Sounds like you have been reading the Linux groups.  Those things
don't seem to be much of a problem for *BSD, I think because they
do not have the policy that as soon as a new feature doesn't panic
or hang the system right away they release it to the world.


Larry