From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 02:19:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA02848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA02840 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zU62O-0005il-00; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:19:08 +0200 Message-ID: <19981016111908.A21975@cityip.co.za> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:19:08 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: "Shishir K. Ramam" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: differences between Free and Net BSD. Mail-Followup-To: "Shishir K. Ramam" , FreeBSD Questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Shishir K. Ramam on Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 06:25:24PM -0500 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 at 18:25 SAT, Shishir K. Ramam wrote: > > Linux. what are the differences between Net and FreeBSD? or are the > reasons more historical? Historical, yes. Also, the NetBSD project seems to focus to an extent on porting to multiple architectures, whereas the FreeBSD project focuses (again, to an extent) on providing a stable, high-performance server environment on Intel hardware. The OpenBSD project, on the other hand, has high security as its focus. -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message