From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 03:05:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA01980 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA01975 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA00407; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:04:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Nadav Eiron cc: myorke@usa.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the difference In-Reply-To: <32EB364E.3AFE@barcode.co.il> 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 Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > Mike Yorke wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have recently become a UN*X enthusiast and have been playing around > > with Linux a bit. While doing so I have discovered that Linux is not > > the only Free PC compatible UNIX out there; i.e. FreeBSD. > > > > I've noticed that there are what appears to be different BSD > > implementations out there that all use the BSD name; FreeBSD, NetBSD, > > BSDI, etc. What's the difference? Is there a difference? I get the > > impression that they are all very similar with some exceptions. Could > > you shed any light on this subject? A good site to look at is http://www.cons.org/cracauer/bsd.html. It's a subjective, incomplete rundown of the differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD, and it's quite good (it doesn't claim to be objective or complete). Mr. Eiron's advice is also quite good. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Mike Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.