From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 16:48:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18125 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18116 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00332; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:48:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brian cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960725033725.006741cc@smartnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Brian wrote: > Hi, I was just hoping to solicit a few opinions... Why BSD over any of the > others available? BSD is a type of Unix correct? Why Unix, and especially > BSD, over Windows NT? FreeBSD is a version of 4.4BSD, which is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386 architecture (386,486,Pent,P6). Why UNIX over NT? Well, that depends on what you are doing. They are completely different operating systems (although some elements of NT had roots in unix). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major