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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!deep.rsoft.bc.ca!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Diffs Between/Where To Get Various 386 BSD Distributions Date: 1 Nov 1993 21:37:58 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2b3vjm$6oq@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.rsoft.bc.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] I've been reading the 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ (24 Sept. 1993), and it really doesn't give much information on the differences between the three. From what I gather, FreeBSD is supposed to be the most stable and least "advanced" (in terms of new and nifty and perhaps not-quite- debugged features), 386BSD the least stable and most "advanced", and NetBSD somewhere between the two. Is this correct? What other differences am I likely to see, besides just reliability? Also, the FAQ gives a huge list of FTP sites for 386BSD, but says nothing about whether each site actually carries 386BSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD. Any hints here? Thanks for your help. Please reply by email and I will summarise to this group (and perhaps expand the FAQ questions slightly, if there's any demand). cjs -- Tongilianus habet nasum; scio, non nego. sed iam Curt Sampson nil praeter nasum tongilianus habet. a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca --Martial