From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 13 21:40:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05DA137B401 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:40:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3664B43E75 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 6103 invoked by uid 417); 14 Aug 2002 04:40:49 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2002 04:40:49 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.7.94]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:40:48 -0600 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:37:21 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "Anurak Cherdsuriya" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please suggest me on *BSD Message-Id: <20020814003721.10d3a6d1.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <003201c24343$920eaba0$471914ac@anurak> References: <003201c24343$920eaba0$471914ac@anurak> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:35:00 +0700 "Anurak Cherdsuriya" wrote: > I'm very new to BSD world. There are so many BSD such as FreeBSD, > Net BSD, OpenBSD. All of them are free and I don't know the > different among them. I visited all of their web sites but FreeBSD has the largest pre-installable package selection, and is arguably the easiest to install and use. It is made for PC compatables and Alphas only, though other ports are on the way. It is optimized for PC hardware, which, among other things, makes it the fastest. It also is probably the best as a workstation (unlike OpenBSD Mozilla works, and workstation users like lots of software availability), as well as a server. (Yahoo uses FreeBSD to do it's serving, and even Microsoft is said to use it for Hotmail.) NetBSD is famous mainly for being available for the largest amount of architectures. This is great if you have an old 68K Apple Macintosh, a VAX, a SPARC, or many other kinds of old or unusual hardware. There's even a Sony Playstation port. OpenBSD is famous for security, it works also on several computer architectures though not as many as NetBSD. Because of this emphasis on security it makes a good firewall. > everything there is very similar. Can you help giving me the > information or other web sites about all of them? How to select any > of them? I am sure that each of them must have designed for some > specific reasons. Thanks in advance. Take a look in directory.google.com and you'll find lots of *BSD websites. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message