From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 9 03:43:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA24592 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 03:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Jupiter.internal.planet-three.com (host5-99-52-130.btinternet.com [195.99.52.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA24584 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 03:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@internal.planet-three.com) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by Jupiter.internal.planet-three.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA01087; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:42:54 GMT (envelope-from scot@internal.planet-three.com) X-Authentication-Warning: Jupiter.internal.planet-three.com: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:42:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: Sergo Panfilov cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDI or FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35042773.2565FD60@sna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The main reason people tend to choose BSDI is because corporations tend to like commercial software. They don't seem to realise that mailing lists like this exist and work as well as they do. This probably isn't the place to find a well balanced opinion ;-) When it comes to configuration, FreeBSD seems much nicer - BSDI's install doesn't have as many options. Another big argument for FreeBSD is that is ships on what is now 4 CDs - full of source code for the O/S and binaries for just about every other software package you're likely to need. BSDI kinda falls short here. However, there are more commercial packages available for BSDI - but most of those run on FreeBSD anyway, although of course you'd have trouble getting support from the vendors then. Good luck Scot. On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Sergo Panfilov wrote: > Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 09:31:31 -0800 > From: Sergo Panfilov > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: BSDI or FreeBSD > > Hi. > > I am starting an ISP and would like to know should I go with FreeBSD or > BSDI 3. Which one is more stable and easiest to configure? Are there > more software and hardware compatible with BSDI then FreeBSD? And what > are main differences between them besides price? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message