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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:20:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>, Jorge Melhado <jrgmelhado@hotmail.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20020731151732.U44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <200208012010.33301.alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>

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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alex Drummond wrote:

> From: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:10:33 +0000

Isn't there an RFC about CC'ing the original poster?  Hurumph.

> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 6:45 pm, Jorge Melhado wrote:
> > Hi, I=B4d like to know the differences among OpenBSD x NetBSD x FreeBSD=
=2E
> > Thanks
> > Jorge
> > jrgmelhado@hotmail.com
>
> FreeBSD concentrates on the i386 and alpha platforms and is the only one =
of
> the three with SMP support (I think), which presumably makes it better fo=
r
> high-end servers. NetBSD and OpenBSD both concentrate on making the OS
> portable to many different architectures, with OpenBSD also emphasising
> security and encryption tools. FreeBSD has the largest ports collection o=
f
> the three, with NetBSD quite close behind and OpenBSD a long way off. Whi=
ch
> one to use basically comes down to personal preference (unless one of the=
m
> has some killer feature) so you can basically try all three or pick one a=
t
> random :)

http://www.bsdforums.org is a good place to start, as well as each OS's
individual websites (I'm assuming they each have their own).

That reminds me.  Where is www.freebsd.org hosted and who foots the bill? :=
)

> There is no Hell. There is only France.  -Frank Zappa

Mon dieu.  Come on now, France is much better these days, even Parisians!

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