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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Better to start with: NETBSD-0.9 or BSD386????? Date: 18 Aug 1993 18:02:47 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <24tqs7$jg8@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CBuoK1.4C6@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <CByA25.FDI@veda.is> NNTP-Posting-Host: fubar.cs.montana.edu In article <CByA25.FDI@veda.is>, Adam David <adam@veda.is> wrote: >uphya001@odie.uni-bielefeld.de (Lars Koeller,D0-231/258,1065375,0526189607) writes: > >>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? >Don't even think of installing 386bsd at the present time, it will take far This is very very true. >too long to get into a useable state than waiting for FreeBSD to be released >"any day now" (tm). There is no obvious reason to recommend which package to >choose from FreeBSD or NetBSD, check them both out when they come out. hmmm. This question will be answered shortly I think. >FreeBSD is meant to be the base for the new patchkit, NetBSD is more >general with respect to different machine architectures and you get access >to the current source tree which is updated daily. Other advantages and >disadvantages of either system are less apparent. The FreeBSD tree will be available (the CVS tree) on a regular basis as well, and I think via sup, so that's a non-issue. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu