Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:55:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807311640090.8250-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980730150814.730A-100000@peloton.physics.montan a.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Brett Taylor wrote: [..] > ISA/PCI/EISA yes > # IDE modes supported PIO 1-4 ? Current supports UDMA pretty well, and I think perhaps 2.2.7 does too. > Microchannel no > ISA "Plug-n-play" yes > PC cards (PCMIA) limited There's also "3rd party" support with the PAO stuff. > Filesystems > ------------ > Standard type UFS > # Journaling no ? Nope. > # Backup software included BRU ?? What about dump, pax, and tar? > Installation > ------------ > Native package format pkg_add (in tgz) > Also reads none RPM too. > # Can query/validate packages yes? (I'm not sure what he means here) > # Floppyless install if using no (is this right?) > bootable CDROM > # Floppies required (min/max) 1/( for everything? - TONS - I think I saw > Greg Lehey say this was around 1400 > w/ the ports collection) No this is for a install off of cdrom. > Install from remote TCP server yes > Install from remote IPX server no > # Express choices available ? not sure what this means ? > > Development > ----------- > C Compiler included in base (gcc) Theoretically you could add TenDRA up there too. > Generates FreeBSD a.out (ELF in 3.0) > Standard debugging tools gdb,xxgdb ddd and ups too. > POSIX-compliant shell bash available (csh is not POSIX right?) pdksh is somewhat posix compliant I think. > Perl yes > Other Scripting languages Python, Scheme, Tcl Modula-3, lisp, rexx, haskell, basic.. > Network services > ---------------- > Optional SMTP server qmail And smail too. > Emulation > --------- > # Windows 3.1 no? Wabi under Linux emu perhaps, and Wine does Win16 emu too IIRC. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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