Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:49:30 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010106114929.B15125@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220802b67cfb78ebe0@[172.17.1.121]>; from blk@skynet.be on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:05:24PM %2B0100 References: <v04220802b67cfb78ebe0@[172.17.1.121]>
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> probably a lot like FreeBSD 2.2.5 -- in particular, they don't have > any support for SMP (that doesn't result in the box crashing a few > minutes later ;-), and what SMP work is being done is of course > exclusively for x86. Actually I believe they are working on it for their alpha port and possibly the sparc64 port, in addition to x86. > Is NetBSD really all this bad? Have I missed something > fundamental? Is there anyone on this list that's used both recent > versions of NetBSD and FreeBSD on previous generation single CPU > hardware and can give me a reasonably fair comparison and contrast? In my experience, it is NOT that bad. In fact, I have always been quite pleased when using it. They have recently integrated their UBC work (in NetBSD-current) and have a really cool /etc/rc setup. -- Nathan Ahlstrom / nrahlstr@winternet.com / nra@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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