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From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD?
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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.

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