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From: root@kingdom.com (Charlie Root)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD OR NetBSD
Date: 6 Nov 1993 20:40:37 GMT
Organization: Kingdom Communications, Inc.  San Francisco, California USA
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In article <CFxx11.Cos@cnsnews.colorado.edu>,
Ramzi Al-Majid <ramzi@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
>
>which one shall i use, NetBSD or FreeBSD for my home machine which i
>will need to connect to work via SLIP.? 
>
>which is more stable and has more support and is closer to being
>complete ?
>
>please email me.
>
>thanks.
>
Well, both NetBSD and FreeBSD supports SLIP.... However FreeBSD tends to have
more support or most likely committed to supporting their users... FreeBSD is
aiming towards a more stable system and both of them are pretty complete...


Cheers,

Vince

root@kingdom.com
System Administrator/Owner
Kingdom Communications, Inc./California Unix Public Access Systems, Inc.
San Francisco, California USA

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