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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD-0.9 ? Date: 24 Aug 1993 17:19:49 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <25dijl$ocr@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1993Aug24.094944.15984@info.brad.ac.uk> <1993Aug24.132725.3171@sophia.smith.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Aug24.132725.3171@sophia.smith.edu>, J Fieber <jfieber@sophia.smith.edu> wrote: >Both technical and philosophical differences are relevant. The philosophical differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD are not really that great, the differences come in how-to-implement. >Up till now, upgrading my 386bsd through patchkits has provided >the path of least resistance, but either the NetBSD or FreeBSD >upgrades be quite a lot of work I gather. However, I don't want Hmmm, I think the upgrade from 386bsd to FreeBSD wasn't hard, it didn't take me very long to do it. From 386bsd to NetBSD is whole 'nother issue that I haven't explored. >Running XS3 is also critical for me. Last I heard from XS3 worked with FreeBSD as of the beta release, Nate's running it right now, just down the hall. -- 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