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Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 16 15:40:13 1997
To: Christopher M Culbertson <culb0005@tc.umn.edu>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:29:24 CST."
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 15:38:33 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Do I need to be running NetBSD to run your Athena port?
Yeah, you do.
> And if not, do you consider NetBSD to be any better or worse than
> FreeBSD in general? I gather from your choice of NetBSD that
> something is better about it.
It has some advantages over FreeBSD; it supports platforms other than
the i386 and we believe it has somewhat higher quality of code base
than FreeBSD. We're biased, though (SIPB has a NetBSD core team
member and several NetBSD developers among its membership), and
FreeBSD does have some advantages over NetBSD (easier installation,
more hardware support for the moment, and some performance
advantages).
