From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 20 00:11:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04957 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA04942 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23757; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:10:05 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Message-ID: <3604AA4D.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:10:05 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: francisco@natserv.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD References: <199809192324.TAA10064@federation.addy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes wrote: > > On 19-Sep-98 Laurence Berland wrote: > > I saw a system running NetBSD, what is this and how is it different from > > freeBSD? > > What it is, is best described at www.netbsd.org > Basically it is another Unix, just as Linux is another Unix. > > The general comments I have read are that OpenBSD is the most secure, > NetBSD is the most portable and FreeBSD is the best performer. This is true. I found that NetBSD is very stable, but FreeBSD performs better on an Intel system since it is optimised for that platform. -Jacques ------------------------------------------------------ The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" ... so I got BSD Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo UNIX Systems | jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message