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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!bonkers!peter From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: bsd vs linux???? Organization: Taronga Park BBS References: <2683ju$k15@nic.umass.edu> <26arjt$hkl@news.bu.edu> Message-ID: <CCvv6E.4Jv@taronga.com> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 13:37:11 GMT Lines: 10 In article <26arjt$hkl@news.bu.edu>, Bill Heiser <heiser@bumetb.bu.edu> wrote: >I tried 386BSD several months ago. After *many* trials and >tribulations, I got it to install correctly. But even then, >there were several basic *blatant* bugs. Even simple >things like 'cd' and 'ls' had bugs severe enough so that I >wrote 386BSD off as "unusable in its present state". Sounds like you didn't install the patchkits. Without them it's useless. At 0.2.4 (the last patchkit) it's pretty good. FreeBSD and NetBSD should obviate all that tedious patching...