From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 1 22:11:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from calamity.eng.ua.edu (calamity.eng.ua.edu [130.160.20.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E52D14C05 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkudrav@eng.ua.edu) Received: from ho05.eng.ua.edu (ho05.eng.ua.edu [130.160.40.5]) by calamity.eng.ua.edu (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04542; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:12:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:10:15 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kudrav To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: kudra001@bama.ua.edu Subject: basic info on freebsd needed... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I am considering running freebsd and also considering openbsd, but have some questions. I am fairly familiar with AIX and Solaris, and slightly less familiar with Linux. I use AIX and/or Solaris almost daily, but only as a user and for limited applications. I am looking for some sort of comparison between free and open bsd. What are the advantages to each? Will software that runs under one run under the other with minimum effort (recompile) or will it be more complicated? What are the advantages of free over open? Open vs free? Freebsd vs linux? I'd really like to start running a unix or unix like OS on my PII and am most strongly considering freebsd, but don't feel that I know enough to do it. Everyone I know runs Linux or Windows... Finally, I'd like to keep a Win98 partition, but I'm pretty sure that is possible; please just confirm. Thanks, David ps, can I run freebsd on a 486/33? What is the min size hard disk/ram? ------------------------------------------------------------ David J. Kudrav E-mail: dkudrav@eng.ua.edu "Expect the movement of trains, engines or cars at any time, on any track, in either direction." -- Norfolk Southern Operating Rules, General Rules, Rule M ------------------------------------------------------------ Send no unsolicited commercial e-mail. (No Spam.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message