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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Is there a Free/NetBSD equivalent to the Slackware distribution? Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 22:19:44 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <JE5uJiQ.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2msa2l$n75@clarknet.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-To: Rob Newberry <rob-n@clark.net> Rob Newberry <rob-n@clark.net> writes: >I have been told by Alan Cox (one of the authors of the net >code) that I should look at NetBSD/FreeBSD since the linux code >isn't working for us. Well, the distribution from walnut creek is good (as i have heard), but the linux world is more oriented to easy installation. The bsd world is a little better at building the system from scratch. You might have to pull together a few of the programs that you want, but things usually compile very easily out-of-the-box on *real* bsd type systems like FreeBSD or NetBSD. Linux is a bit different than anything else in the past and many times requires a modification or two to get things to compile. John dyson@implode.root.com