From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 26 00:42:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA17712 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA17702 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA08208; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:12:09 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970926171209.11155@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:12:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christian Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD specialties References: <2178D50577@colstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <2178D50577@colstate.edu>; from Christian on Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 10:16:38AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 10:16:38AM -0400, Christian wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all I'm posting here because I know many of the FreeBSD gurus, (who > would know the answer to my question), read this list, and because I'm not sure > if it is appropriate for any other list. This question is serious. It's not appropriate for this list :-) > Here goes: > > I have been using FreeBSD since 1994 on our campus to handle many of the > internet related tasks for us. Our web server, dns server, dhcp server, etc. > all run FreeBSD. All of the things we do are pretty basic, and do not really > take particular advantage of some advanced FreeBSD features, such as CCD, etc. > So I do not know much about the bleeding-edge FreeBSD stuff. > > Anyways, one of my questions is, Are there things/features/capabilities in > FreeBSD that other Operating Systems do not have? I'm not asking if FreeBSD > does something better (i.e. webserving) , but if it does something others do > not. Maybe freebsd has this special network service called xyz that other OSs > do not have (this is an example). Also, what can FreeBSD do that linux cannot? > (I ask this because FreeBSD does everything I need so well, that I have never > really had the need/desire to install linux for comparison) Hmm. Wes had a better answer than I. Another thing I can think of is TCP mounts for NFS. BSD/OS has them as well, but I'm pretty sure that most System V's don't, and I'm not sure about Linux. > Another question I had was versions of BSDI, Linux, and SCO can the various > versions of FreeBSD emulate. Does -current, for example, support a higher > version of BSDI binaries than -release? And what particular versions do they > support, respectively? All recent versions of FreeBSD support BSD/OS 2.x a.out files. There are some problems with 1.x. In fact, the problems are more between 1.x and 2.x than BSD/OS and FreeBSD; there were some differences in the structures used for file locking. You may, however, find that some BSD/386 1.x executables die on you before ever getting to main(). What we still don't have is support for BSD/OS 3.0 elf binaries. I think they're working on it, though. Greg