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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:56:31 -0800
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On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, David Miller wrote:
> In article <4f86tp$5ki@atlas.uniserve.com> you wrote:
> : In article <4f6eir$odk@news.quanta.com>, rsww@quanta.coml says...
>
> : >give some better performance. BSDI has more device drivers, but a lot
>
> : If that were only so. You shoud say that BSDI supports different things.
> : BSDI does not have support for:
>
> : * Adaptec 2742, 2842, 2940
> : * No PCI ethernet cards at all: including DEC based cards which FreeBSD
> : supports
> : * No 100mbs ethernet support at all, including DEC and Intel cards which
> : FreeBSD supports
>
> News Flash!
>
> Version 2.1, which I received yesterday supports all the above.
Yes, but has no support for SCSI wide, or dual-channel SCSI adapters.
There is also no NIS/YP support.
It also bugs me that 2.1 comes with a mutant tar, that doesn't
understand "-" flags, or any kind of compress flags ("z" or "Z"). The
/etc/ftpd_samples/ftpconversions file is completly wrong as a result.
Tom