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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!ncar!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!yale!yale.edu!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 11:51:45 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <JU1PQqB.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <michaelv.763141055@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <Scot.11.00174D29@hk.super.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-To: Stephane Cotineau <Scot@hk.super.net> Stephane Cotineau <Scot@hk.super.net> writes: >reason I want Unix) I'm contemplating installing NetBSD. The version that is >on the CD is 0.8 (July 93) & I understand there is near 1.0 version right now. >Where can I get it & should I install 0.8 then upgrade or rather get the files >for the current version & start from scratch ? FreeBSD has significant performance enhancements in the pipeline and soon will be out on CDROM in version 1.1. The ONLY reason not to use FreeBSD is if you are not using an X86. Version 1.2 is going to be even better. We actually have a BETA release ready now (as a full release and not just a snapshot of -current.) We (FreeBSD) are more in a catch-up mode in some fluff features, but have been working on making the kernel and VM much more solid. Other platforms will probably be coming later. As far as the kernel robustness -- I think that FreeBSD has it now. We have had some problems in the past (so has everyone.) Many of our kernel sources are starting to diverge because of enhancements being made to FreeBSD (I have heard that the VM stuff is 14K lines of diffs!!!) Features will be coming later. (I want my stuff to run -- my customers don't care that I am implementing the debugger through a procfs instead of a ptrace system call!!) John Dyson dyson@implode.root.com