From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 17:07:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16924 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16919 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA12491; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:37:22 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA11605; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:37:22 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981218113722.D486@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:37:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Lex Teba , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: differences References: <3678E867.3C837640@mathematik.hu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3678E867.3C837640@mathematik.hu-berlin.de>; from Lex Teba on Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:17:59PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 17 December 1998 at 12:17:59 +0100, Lex Teba wrote: > Hallo, > > I'm a Linux user and liked to know where the differences between FreeBSD > NetBSD and OpenBSD are? I'm a FreeBSD user, and I'd like to know where the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are. It's very difficult to compare, because each project has a different way of looking at things. Here's what I wrote for a recent article: FreeBSD is currently the most widespread of the BSD variants. More than the others, it aims for ease of installability and use for end users. It originally targeted only Intel platforms, but recently a port for the Compaq/DEC alpha architecture has been released. Other projects include a port to UltraSparc, which has not yet made significant headway. NetBSD takes a different approach: from the beginning, it intended to support as many hardware platforms as possible. At the time of writing, it supports just about any platform you can think of, including just about all Sun hardware since the Sun 3, though some support is limited. For example, at the time of writing the UltraSparc port does not support PCI-based motherboards or multiple processors, though it is likely that support for this hardware will be added in the near future. OpenBSD diverged from NetBSD in 1996. It places more emphasis on security aspects than the other projects. Like NetBSD, it supports a large number of platforms, though not as many as NetBSD. For example, there is currently no UltraSparc support. This doesn't answer your question, of course. But it might helps as a starting point. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message