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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. BSDI
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:57:15 GMT
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In article <45hthc$qcd@tzlink.j51.com>, Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote:

>Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
>
>: You probably don't want to do this.  It would be a major pain in the
>: ass.  Just intall FreeBSD 2.0.5R or one of the latest snap releases.  
>: They're quite stable.
>
>One person who responded by email said that BSDI was more stable than
>FreeBSD.

That shouldn't be surprising, given that the BSDI people have been
working on their product for something like twenty years.

I should think that your main concern would be whether other
people running FreeBSD, in an environment similar to the one you
wish to set up, have found it to be stable.  If the answer is
"yes," what more do you need to know?  Certainly it should not be
important whether FreeBSD is more stable in other circumstances.

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