Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:36:14 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Ron Bickers <rbickers@intercenter.net> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI and binary compatibility Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970312173613.011b6c44@mixcom.com>
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At 05:04 PM 3/12/97 -0500, Ron Bickers wrote: >We are currently running multiple BSDI 2.1 and FreeBSD 2.1.7 machines. We >recently received the BSDI 3.0 upgrade and I feel that it's mostly bells >and whistles (most of which I don't want to use anyway). Last update I got was 2.1 under the service contract and it sounds like I didn't miss a thing. Especially considering the price. >I've considered switching things to FreeBSD, but we do have a few binary >only products (and I know there are others available) for BSDI. Does >anyone know how compatible BSDI binaries are with FreeBSD and if the >developers intend to continue compatibility? AFAIK, some work, some don't. We are in the process of changing our last BSDi webserver to FreeBSD and some CGI scripts (compiled C) work and some have to be recompiled. >Also, any opinions from those that know both BSDI and FreeBSD are welcome >as to the strengths and weakness of each. Others will be more technical, but BSDi has always been slow for new device drivers. Adding packages using sysinstall (yes I can to it the hard way) makes upgrading/adding much less time consuming. Full source w/o paying a lot more. Memory management is better. One plus I like about BSDi is that ksh is the 'sh' and I am very much a ksh type, the pdksh seems a bit buggy to me, just in vi. They look and feel the same for the most part. One thing we like the the built in SKEY, which we use extensively. Also if you do NIS, FreeBSD has it and I don't know if BSDi added it yet. We may use it. Needless to say we have converted most of our server to FreeBSD, but one is going to take a while. Almost everything hooks into a custom database, which we are scrapping. Along with the menu system. You want shell, learn *nix. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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