From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 11:29:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16175 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15930 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id LAA20726; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA13238; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:17:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199805131817.LAA13238@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: NetBSD? In-Reply-To: from Paul Dekkers at "May 13, 98 07:17:10 pm" To: psd@cgu.nl (Paul Dekkers) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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