Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:17:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: psd@cgu.nl (Paul Dekkers) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD? Message-ID: <199805131817.LAA13238@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513191455.1743A-100000@chippie.cgu> from Paul Dekkers at "May 13, 98 07:17:10 pm"
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According to Paul Dekkers: > Hi > > I hear more and more people talking about NetBSD, so the following > question raised: what are the main advantages of NetBSD over FreeBSD (or > FreeBSD over NetBSD to keep the subject FreeBSD ;-)) instead of just > 'running on many architectures'...? > For one thing, NetBSD's utility set are far more POSIX complient than FreeBSD's. This is why we chose the Net code as a porting base. For those concerned mainly about POSIX... . On the other side of the equation, FreeBSD is ahead in it locale code. --Prob'ly because FBSD has a larger base outside the US. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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