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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd vs. linux Message-ID: <jmonroyCv9uCC.KIG@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <33lef8$bov@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 00:50:36 GMT Lines: 41 Ryan Meegan (ryan@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu) wrote: : I am interested in putting a unix system together for personal use, and : eventually connection to an ethernet (with access to the internet). : I'd like it to run on a 386dx (of some decent speed (yet to be purchased)), : 4 or 8 megs of ram, a monochrome monitor (hercules), and about 500 megs of : free hard drive space (ide drive most likely). I'd like it to come with : everything i need to network it pre-compiled (all the daemon's, etc ready to : roll). Now, in your opinion, which is more suited to my application (personal : workstation with internet access, probably single user, though maybe a few : of my friends would use it occasionally), netbsd, freebsd, or linux. Note, I : did not ask which is better (i don't want to start a flame war), but which is : easiest to set up, and has what I'm looking for, and will run on the hardware : I'm looking at? : What are the real differences between freebsd and netbsd? : I'm going to get flamed for this, but here goes. 386bsd release 1.0, by Bill Jolitz the original author of 386bsd and the basis for Freebsd and Netbsd, is making a new offering. 386bsd release 1.0 is available, as described in another article, for booting off an MS-DOS system. So to answer your question, in my opinion, 386bsd release 1.0 will, when available, be the easiest to setup, start, compare and possibly use. Is there a limitation? Yes, 386bsd release 1.0 is said to be in a "production stage". I am imformed that this means that the source tree is finalized, the annotations are finalized and that the "production stage" refers to the test nesseccary to assure readability of the disk. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________