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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD (Information please, no flames or advocacy please) Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:05:38 GMT Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3rsrn3$t5r@pandora.sdsu.edu> References: <1995Jun15.223255@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stephan Melin (melin@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de) wrote: > But are there major differences? If so - which are the differences? I don't know that much about NetBSD, but I do know I had a much easier time getting FreeBSD set up and running than I did NetBSD. > And last but not least: Which one do you think is the more stable one? - I do > not want to spend my time debugging kernels, device drivers etc. (yet)... Sounds like you have been reading the Linux groups. Those things don't seem to be much of a problem for *BSD, I think because they do not have the policy that as soon as a new feature doesn't panic or hang the system right away they release it to the world. Larry