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From: taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD
Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:15:22 -0500
Organization: Internex Online Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <4fb955$1jp@catapult.va.pubnix.com>, Kurt J. Lidl <lidl@va.pubnix.com> wrote:
>
>Yeah, but next time, why don't you bother to point out that www.bsdi.com
>still says "V2.1 now shipping! (details coming soon)". You're comparing
>the feature list of their 2.0 system (released for just about a year)
>with the latest version of FreeBSD. How about a fair comparision next
>time?
The comparison may be invalid *now*, but it does demonstrate that
in general, FreeBSD (and NetBSD and Linux) enjoy the benefits of much
more rapid code development than their commercial counterparts.
FreeBSD had most, if not all, of the additional driver support new to
BSD/OS 2.1 over six months ago.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"