Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: myorke@usa.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the difference Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970126030116.333C-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <32EB364E.3AFE@barcode.co.il>
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > Mike Yorke wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have recently become a UN*X enthusiast and have been playing around > > with Linux a bit. While doing so I have discovered that Linux is not > > the only Free PC compatible UNIX out there; i.e. FreeBSD. > > > > I've noticed that there are what appears to be different BSD > > implementations out there that all use the BSD name; FreeBSD, NetBSD, > > BSDI, etc. What's the difference? Is there a difference? I get the > > impression that they are all very similar with some exceptions. Could > > you shed any light on this subject? A good site to look at is http://www.cons.org/cracauer/bsd.html. It's a subjective, incomplete rundown of the differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD, and it's quite good (it doesn't claim to be objective or complete). Mr. Eiron's advice is also quite good. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Mike Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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