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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!mds From: mds@soda.berkeley.edu (Mark D. Spiller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: upgrade path Date: 19 Apr 1994 09:40:00 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc, UCBerkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2p08tg$jmr@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu I had some problems a while back with running out of memory while running xv (with 16MB of RAM), and I have decided to upgrade my os (currently NetBSD 0.9) to something more current that hopefully has a better memory management/VM system. So, my question is, from NetBSD-0.9, what is the easiest upgrade path in terms of FreeBSD 1.1. or NetBSD-current? Will I have to nuke my system entirely, or is there some way that I can just recompile my kernel? Which one it turns out to be otherwise is unimportant to me, I don't want to start a flame war... I am just looking for the least hassle... Thanks for any info that anyone can offer... Also, as an aside, does anyone know of a virtual window manager that looks like twm but still allows xsetroot and such? (I am dissatisfied with tvtwm, also). Thanks, Mark D. Spiller mds@soda.berkeley.edu