From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 26 10:21:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19818 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wolf.com (ns1.wolf.com [207.137.58.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA19813 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@wolf.com) Received: (qmail 8193 invoked by uid 100); 26 Dec 1998 18:30:42 -0000 Message-ID: <19981226103041.A4602@wolf.com> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:30:41 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney To: Packet Warrior , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PakiWar@Inside-AOL.com: Questions] References: <19981226185209.A2075@panke.de.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <19981226185209.A2075@panke.de.freebsd.org>; from Wolfram Schneider on Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 06:52:09PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can you tell me the differences between UNIX, IRIX, and FreeBSD? I'm > having trouble deciding which one to use. UNIX is something of a catch-all, referring to a whole class of OS's. I think it's a registered trademark of AT&T, but is usually used to refer to any of the class of operating systems derived from AT&T's System 5 Unix or from UC Berkeley's BSD. IRIS is Silicon Graphic's implementation of Unix, and only runs on Silicon Graphics hardware. FreeBSD is an implementation of Unix derived from BSD release Net-2, and runs primarily on Intel x86 family hardware (386 and better). Other ports are available for FreeBSD, but I'm not sure which platforms are currently available; you can check that out at http://www.freebsd.org. In general, the choice between IRIX and one of the BSDs is pretty easy - if you are running Intel hardware, IRIX is not available. If you are running on SGI hardware, IRIX would be the choice if you were running IRIX-specific applications, otherwise one fo the BSDs (most likely netbsd) would be the superior environment. Dan Mahoney dan@wolf.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message