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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. BSDI Date: 13 Oct 1995 08:57:15 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <45l64r$3jv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45bt9b$ism@tzlink.j51.com> <DG7xJM.6xJ@ritz.mordor.com> <45hthc$qcd@tzlink.j51.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote: >One person who responded by email said that BSDI was more stable than >FreeBSD. That might be possible. Anyway, FreeBSD is not the unstablest system at all, consider the load of ftp.cdrom.com as an example. :-) I think both systems are as stable as the underlying hardware. If you need commercial support, you can easily get it for BSDI, but you have to find someone supporting you for FreeBSD. This does not say it's entirely impossible to find one however. >: Also, if you have to support the users on the machines, you're >: probably much better off just buying machines with NO operating >: system and install what you want from scratch. At least then you >: know what you've got. > >I'll install FreeBSD on top of whatever it comes with rather soon... You can as well install one of the latest 2.1-SNAPs if you're going to start from scratch now. A lot of minor bugs have been fixed, and the only thing that's being worked on now is the installation program. (Satoshi has signalled that the packages are also ready now.) Jordan wants to have a nice upgrade feature in it, for all the 2.0.5 users. You won't need it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)