From: phragger@yabbs
To: cosmos@yabbs
Subject: re: Which pub *nix to run...
Date: Sun Dec  5 09:52:59 1993

if you are gonna run with only 8m, linux is the one to go for.
basically because it can run X w/ 8megs and not start swapping 
on the first few xterms. linux is VERY MESSY (imho), but i've heard they 
have at least on some point been thinking about cleaning it up. Well, 
anyways, it works, most bsd and posix and sysv stuff compile easy.
there is netbsd and freebsd  on the bsd side. netbsd is still very much in 
its infancy, with yet no shared libs (kiss x goodbye) and even a machine 
dependet kmem thingimajig (almost, called it an api, tsiisus), but they're 
supposed to fix that "later".  netbsd is gonna be on very many platforms,
amiga, apple, ipm, sun3, hp300. the amiga version  can do sun3 binaries, 
etc. but as far as i know, everything except the ipm version are 
betabetabeta. about freebsd i don't know much at all. somebody else prob 
talk about that.  but the newse version is 1.1alpha (as far as i know) and 
the only thing i know about it that it isn't "stable"....