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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.net.csuchico.edu!charnel!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: net / free bsd ? Date: 19 Mar 1994 21:17:04 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2mfq4g$ne@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <2mfhs2$r65@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <2mfhs2$r65@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, syd kahn <skahn@kaiwan.com> wrote: >Please pardon a newbie question. Is there a difference between FreeBSD >and NetBSD. Yes. >If so What? It depends on who you ask, and what your needs are. >I installed FreeBSD on a machine at work and am just starting to play >around with things. If NetBSD is a more robust system, I would >rather switch before I get too os specific. If you're not kernel hacking, most things should work the same on both systems, due to their common Berkeley heritage. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. formerly known as | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people wollman@emba.uvm.edu | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant