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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: To BSD or not to BSD... Message-ID: <jmonroyCuM4x9.5D9@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <32mn8o$lc7@olympus.net> <ZyyR0f5.dysonj@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 05:36:45 GMT Lines: 36 John Dyson (dysonj@delphi.com) wrote: : Dylan Vanderhoof <bassman@olympus.net> writes: : : >I am getting a Unix OS for my IBM, but I cannot decide if I should use : >Linux or BSD. Does anybody have any help on that? : > : >Also, what is the difference between 386BSD and FreeBSD? : : My opinion is generally this (remember I am a FreeBSD partisan!!!): : : FreeBSD - currently i386-only, optimized for that platform. : NetBSD - multi-platform emphasis : Linux - currently i386, lots of driver support, but maybe a : a little less capable of heavy loads. : I beg to add to this list 386bsd Release 1.0. While we are still two days away from Bill Jolitz talk with the SVNET. I am confident that it will be a good 4th choice. : The 4.4Lite releases (NetBSD V1.0 and FreeBSD V2.0) are fairly new code but : each group will attest to how much they have been tested at release time. But : for serious work, I would wait until things settle out (especially if you : are a new user also.) : A final note on my part, 386bsd is and always has been AT&T source code free. Hence, it may or may not use portions of "4.4Lite". The point here being that when you receive your copy of 386bsd (if you get 386bsd, of course) it will be unencumbered. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________