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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386????? Message-ID: <CBwnpv.2Ju@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <CBuoK1.4C6@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 13:20:19 GMT Lines: 38 uphya001@odie.uni-bielefeld.de (Lars Koeller,D0-231/258,1065375,0526189607) writes: >Hello! >I want to install the BSD UNIX on my i486DX2-66 PC Platform. What is the better >package to start: NetBSD-0.9 which should released at the end of this month or the 386bsd package? I'm also very interested in shared libs. Are they usable, or instable, or whatever ....? Who can give any hints? ???BSD: No shared libs. So, if you plan to install any of those free UNIXes on, say, 100 MB of harddisk space and want to do reasonable work, choose LINUX. Especially for X-Window stuff. >Or is Linux the better choice (sorry to ask this in the BDS newsgroup)? If you are a former MS-DOS user choose LINUX. It's easier to install, and - most important :-) - it will give you the feeling of MS-DOS (Ctrl-Alt-Del works !). You don't have to be sorry for asking this question here. I think, nobody will be offended and a lot of people (like me) are reading both groups, at least, just for interest. So, don't bother with that. >How can I connect to the BSD mailinglist? I am sure somebody else will answer this question for me. I don't know. >Thanks for help! No problem. You should consider LINUX because it is much more accessible in Germany than ???BSD. It is available on many BBS Systems. Even though I have internet-access I have lost my source for 386BSD (local ftp-site, NFS-mountable) completely, so I can't get NetBSD (regardless which version) now, unless I want to ftp several MBytes of binaries and code. Although I don't like everything from Linux, I will shift to it. Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt