Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 08:37:13 PST From: "Cosmic 665" <the_hermit665@hotmail.com> To: james.kelly@tcs.wap.org, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd,netbsd,openbsd Message-ID: <20000304163714.76208.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Here are the diferences;
FreeBSD
pros:
a. The most popular of the two
b. Has the most support
c. More compatibility and more Docs
d. SMP support
cons:
a. Linux emulation needs work (it's great, but not perfect)
however, linux emulation on FreeBSD *may* prove to have
greater results than Net & OpenBSD
b. Intel (i386) and alpha archs only (so far)
OpenBSD
pros:
a. *By default* the most secure BSD OS out-of-the-box
(of the three)
b. Mult-platformed
c. Better security due to less popularity
d. has a better way of dealing with sound than FreeBSD (my
opinion)
cons:
a. No SMP support (yet)
b. Incompatibities with FreeBSD ports
c. Lacks all the ports of FreeBSD (less *ported* apps
specifially for OpenBSD)
d. OpenBSD is a 6 month old copy of NetBSD
NetBSD
pros:
a. Multi-platformed
b. more people run it than OpenBSD
c. I believe it is the *Prefered-OS* of BSD on macs
d. More support than OpenBSD for ports/apps
cons:
a. SMP support??? (is there any??)
b. Incompatibilities with FreeBSD ports
c. Open & NetBSD require more config than FreeBSD
d. Not as popular as FreeBSD but more popular than openbsd
Now a lot of people will probably bitch about what I've said. But if you
search the net you will find it to be *totally-true*. You will probably end
up using NetBSD on your mac. Screw MacOS X!!!
>Hello all
>I'm a long-time mac enthusiast, now unix enthusiast and I work at a
>major isp. I've recently become interested in bsd because it is the
>foundation of the upcoming MacOS X and wanted to ask the member of this
>list if they thought there were substantial differences between the
>various bsd's from an administration point of view. For example, I'm
>having difficulty with a netBSD install on an older mac I have. Is
>netBSD all that different from freeBSD? I really don't have any
>perspective yet and hoped someone on this list could shed some light for
>me ;-)
>
>Jim k
>
>
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