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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:04:01 -0600
From:      Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD
Message-ID:  <200412112004.01918.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <41BB9DC9.9020607@mukappabeta.de>
References:  <1102283228.3822.18.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> <200412111901.43885.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> <41BB9DC9.9020607@mukappabeta.de>

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On Saturday 11 December 2004 07:24 pm, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> > Here's how you should decide: Go to the OpenBSD mailing list archives,
> > select 25 or so threads at random, and read them. Do the same for the
> > FreeBSD mailling list archives. Then, make your decision. And remember,
> > it's not like getting married - you can change your mind anytime you
> > like.
>
> A better idea might be to look at the hardware support of the individual
> systems first.  Not much use to chose one, only to find out that it
> doesn't run on the hardware in question (for example, FreeBSD has
> problems on my notebook where NetBSD runs more or less ok'ish, but
> NetBSD won't even boot on another machine on which FreeBSD runs very
> well.  I guess issues like that hold for OpenBSD aswell.) 

Good point.



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