From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 21 20:49: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC65D14A07 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA18FA for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:48:56 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 491; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:52:32 +1100 Message-ID: <3838CAD6.78E98E9B@S1.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:47:18 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Allix Primus , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD, NetBSD vs FreeBSD ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > with an Alpha port and (I think) a PowerPC port - correct me if I'm > > wrong - or see > > I'm not sure about the Light part here. FreeBSD is used on the most > heavily loaded servers on the internet: cdrom.com, yahoo.com, and > hotmail.com. It hasn't been ported to the PowerPC either, It is however > (as far as I know) still being ported to Sparc, and it works on x86, and > alpha processors. > Indeed, Kenneth, I meant "light" as in "not heavy on system resources", unlike certain other O/S's we shan't mention in this forum ;') Allix, as Kenneth points out, there are many good reasons to choose FreeBSD. But as Ryan also mentioned, here is not the place to start a flame-war on "myBSD is better than yourBSD" :') You've started well by asking questions. Go and check out the web sites of each of the BSDs and read for yourself just what is available and what each can do for you. Be aware though, that using one of the *BSD O/Ss, you won't have the latest and greatest "toys", but you surely will have a heap of fun playing with a robust, stable operating system. |-| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message