From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 20:32:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20309 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20269 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA24570; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:02:00 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA14719; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:01:59 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980215150159.03179@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:01:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: gbrandow@hvi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD vs BSDI References: <19980215043441.AAA5156@grb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980215043441.AAA5156@grb>; from Greg Brandow on Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 11:16:11PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 23:16:11 -0500, Greg Brandow wrote: > Hi, > > We currently use BSDI 3.0 and are looking for a free PC-based UNIX system. > Since BSDI was our first taste of UNIX, I'd like something similar. How > close is FreeBSD to BSDI? They're *very* close. At the moment, the released version of FreeBSD doesn't support native ELF object files, so if you have them, you'll have to recompile. To the best of my knowledge, FreeBSD will execute BSD/OS a.out executables directly (the converse doesn't always apply). > Where do Linux and Red Hat Linux figure in the equation. A long way further away. In particular, it won't execute either BSD executable format. > We are an ISP and are primarily looking for something to test > websites and scripts. Well, you could consider using FreeBSD to run an Internet site. A lot of people do, including Yahoo! Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message