From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 21:34:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA13492 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 21:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from onyx.southwind.net (root@onyx.southwind.net [204.95.83.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA13441 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 21:33:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from Ucomplet@localhost) by onyx.southwind.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id XAA26498; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:11:15 -0600 Received: (from goerzenj@localhost) by complete.org (8.7.2/8.7.2) id WAA00242; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:55:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:55:19 -0600 (CST) From: John Goerzen To: Donald Burr cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: User-level and administrative diff's between BSDi and FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I may be wrong, but I thought that Taylor UUCP could be configured (or compiled) to use HDB configs. On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Donald Burr wrote: > I just picked up the latest edition of "UNIX System Administration > Handbook" (an EXCELLENT reference text, btw; I'll be sending highest > kudos to the authors). > > While it doesn't go into details about any of the Free*BSD's nor Linux, > it DOES go into details of a lot of the workstation OS's, including HPUX, > Solaris, ... as well as BSDi on 80x86's. > > So, my question is: how "similar" or "dissimilar" is BSDi from FreeBSD? > in terms of the user interface, system admin tools, programming > environment, etc.? (i.e. are most of the user-land commands available in > FreeBSD, available on BSDi and do they work similarly? And > vice-versa)... well, you get the idea. > > I know there'll be differences, and I'm expecting that: f.e. I know that > BSDi uses its own UUCP derived from the original BSD UUCP, with its own > enhancements, while FreeBSD uses Taylor UUCP with the weird Taylor-style > config files (I much prefer standard HDB configs, but that's another > story). So I'm not expecting them to be THE SAME. > > I just figured that BSDi, since both it and FreeBSD were based on the > 4.4-lite (please correct me if I'm wrong on this), that they should be, > in large part, fairly similar. Of course, I've never used BSDi, so I > can't say this with conviction. That's why I'm asking you folks :) > > Please let me know. Thanks! > > Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 > TEL (805)564-1871 / FAX 564-2315 / WWW http://www.geopages.com/WallStreet/2072 > PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or on Public Key Servers. > ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. ** >