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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs NetBSD Date: 26 Mar 1996 11:56:08 -0500 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 25 Sender: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU Message-ID: <el24trbztcn.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> References: <4j6on8$74h@tempo.univ-lyon1.fr> <4j71e7$fvl@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.57/Emacs 19.30 In article <4j71e7$fvl@news.iastate.edu> gendalia@iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco) writes: Eric Jantzen <jantzen@ccmitpa.univ-lyon1.fr> wrote: }who cab say me what is the difference between OpenBSD }and NetBSD for Sparc ?? I would look here for that information: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html Unfortunately, this page is highly misleading. Some points it doesn't mention: * Most of the OpenBSD `esp' driver is in fact the same as the previous version. Saying that it was `completely replaced' is almost a lie. In addition, Paul Kranenburg has done significant work on the NetBSD version, and it's now quite stable. * Jason Thorpe has written better P4 support for NetBSD. * The 4m development effort is actually making much bigger advances in NetBSD than OpenBSD. Several people are using NetBSD on 4m machines as I write this, and the code should finish being merged very soon.