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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!news.gttw.com!ras From: ras@jax.gttw.com (Andrew Sharp) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD vs. .... Date: 16 Jan 1995 23:59:38 GMT Organization: Jax Gateway to the World Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3ff19a$j9d@news.gttw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jax.gttw.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] What can anyone tell me about the differences (in as short a summary as possible) between FreeBSD, NetBSD, and 386BSD. I have been running FreeBSD v2.0 for a little while and have found it to be quite pleasant. I would however like to know some of the differences. If there are some good WWW pages anywhere that anyone is aware of, I would appreciate their addresses. What of the variations (please correct me if I am wrong) is the one which is "becoming" the current version of the BSD distribution which will continue? <- Or did I misinterpret something somewhere? -> If each one serves a different purpose, please let me know what that is. Does anyone have some good suggestions on hardware to purchase for a nice server/workstation box with ...BSD on it? I'd like to have an S3 video card (worked with them and found I prefer them the most) and around 24-32 Megs of Memory. Would like suggestions on the HD controller (Was thinking DPT), the video card (was thinking #9 GXE-64) and a 486 series box. HD will be a Fujitsu M2694 ESA (1 gig). Two questions regarding FreeBSD: 1) X seems to be extremely slow. It takes the better part of 10 - 20 seconds to come up when xdm is used. Hardware one this: 20M RAM, VLB IDE, Diamond S3 (ISA), 486DX-33. Does anyone know where I can find a "complete" version of olwm? The distribution version is missing numerous files for the properties, etc. I was hoping that someone may have noticed that problem and create a archive which has that "glitch" fixed. Thanks in advance, -Andrew