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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD or FreeBSD
Date: 16 May 1996 12:19:39 GMT
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Matthew Huff <Matthew.Huff@tasb.org> wrote:

> Not to start any wars :-), but if I was going to be building a 
> firewall / Internet / Intranet server off of a free Unix like NetBSD 
> or FreeBSD, which would be better?

If you wanna use the i386 architecture, i doubt you will find any of
the systems particularly better than the other one.

Of course, it's a different matter if you wanna use e.g. an old Sun
for this purpose, in which case you're much better with NetBSD. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)