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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!roissy.umd.edu!mark From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: 386BSD Release: Contributors Only Please... Date: 24 May 1993 16:38:09 GMT Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 39 Message-ID: <1tqtlh$ifs@umd5.umd.edu> References: <1tggls$oqi@agate.berkeley.edu>> <CGD.93May22022324@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <C7FKJw.CMJ@moxie.hou.tx.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: roissy.umd.edu In article <C7FKJw.CMJ@moxie.hou.tx.us> hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney) writes: >"I'll take the best parts of your OS and put them in mine". "And I'll >take the best parts of yours and put them in mine". Gee wouldn't it be >great if they all came out identical? In a word- No. There is a reason they all exist. BSDI appears to be in it for the money. They also are the only available option for some applications. If you have $25,000,000 riding on it, would you use 386bsd or would you buy a commercial product with guarenteed support? (btw. I had to make this choice just last year. Guess what I picked?) 386bsd is a "research system". Mr. Jolitz (without whom we wouldn't have the luxury of flaming about this) is very clear that he is interested in promoting advanced OS implementations. This is an excellent goal, but it isn't for everybody. Netbsd is here _now_ and it's been fairly stable for me. It's a fairly complete system, even including goodies like rpcgen. Sure, people are hacking around in it too, but I don't have to upgrade it. >Seriously, it sure makes it doubly difficult for us (Joe End-User) to keep >current with the latest and the greatest. Now we must deal with >multiple resources. You have to make a choice. Of these various systems, which one best matches up with your needs? Then follow that one, but be aware of what the others are doing. (btw. why is latest and greatest good?) I've always wanted a BSD computer for my home, and I'm using Netbsd because I think it best advances that goal. If 386bsd 0.2 looks good to me (when it gets here-- right now, I know little about it but it's name), I'll consider changing over. >(VGER was a satellite that gleened all knowledge from the universe). And came back to destroy the earth, right? :) Sorry, I couldn't resist--but it illustrates that there is a good side and bad side to everything.