Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:06:13 -0800 From: Fred Condo <fcondo@csuchico.edu> To: lbruno@cmp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <36DED99C.2A4874D0@csuchico.edu>
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> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:53:25 -0800 > From: lbruno@cmp.com > Subject: Technical questions about BSD > > I'm in the process of writing a feature story about open source Linux and BSD. > I'm doing some comparisons between them and commercial NOSes such as Netware and > NT. However, I have a few unresolved questions I need answered. First, I am > curious to know how many thousands of lines of code make up the BSD kernel? > Second, what hardware platforms does it run on Intel, SPARC, Amiga, > Alpha---etc.? What scripting languages can be used with BSD-- such as TCL, C, > C++, PERL, Java, Bourne, Korn ...etc.? What is the maximum number of processors > that FreeBSD can run on a SMP box--- 16 or 32? What are some basic differences > between BSD and Linux? What directories does an administrator working with > FreeBSD have an option of using--- NIS from Sun, DNS, X.500--others? What is > the maximum file size that can run on a FreeBSD operating system-- 64 Mbytes? Is > clustering supported on FreeBSD? What is the minimum footprint of hard disk > memory that BSD can run on? Can you point out any other significant differences > between FreeBSD and other versions of BSD, such as OpenBSD and NetBSD? > Similarly, can you point out any differences between FreeBSD and Linux---as well > as NT and Netwre? Hope this isn't too much to ask...the trouble is I couldn't > locate the info in any other place. > > Is it possible to get the answers to my questions within the next 24 hours? I'd > greatly appreciate it. You could probably have already answered 90% of these questions by using the resources at http://www.freebsd.org/&; http://www.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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