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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Free BSD vs. NET/BSD - whats the diff?
Date: 8 Nov 1995 04:50:36 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> wrote:
] In article <4767rj$pce@usenet.rpi.edu> "Jon << JaMah! >> H. Mah" <mahj> writes:
]
] $ The most characteristic difference between NetBSD and FreeBSD is that FreeBSD
] $ has been far more polished, and its design goals specifically entail the i386
] $ (and 486 and Pentium) Architecture. NetBSD is *slightly* less polished and its
] $ design goals focus more upon creating a system that is geared more towards
] $ cross-platform interoperability (one NetBSD for SPARC, i386, hp300, and a load
] $ of others).
]
] How do you mean ``polished''?
I personally define it as having install media that doesn't need
another OS already running and a dd command to get it onto a box.
Possibly NetBSD will be correcting this in their November release
for the non-Intel versions?
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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