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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:52:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>
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To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
cc: Chris McCoy <chris@sloth.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: BSD
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Chris McCoy wrote:
> 
> >howdoes OpenBSD,and NetBSDcompare to free?
> 
> NetBSD concentrates on multi platfrom. OpenBSD concentrates on security.
> FreeBSD concentrates on Intel platforms.
> 

I've run all three, Open, Net, and Free - If you plan on running on an
Intel Platform I really think that Free is the way to go.  I've found open
to be a little slow, and Net is missing a few of the refinements that
Free has.  I made a decision, if it's Intel HW, then it's FreeBSD -
nothing else.

Please don't take that to mean that Net/Open are flawed in some way,
because they arent.  I believe that because Free happens to have
concentrated on the PC that they have developed a superior product, on the
PC.  That's it, nothing more.

Now, I'm waiting for a Mac and a SPARC to run Net and Open on.  :)


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