From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 21:24:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28912 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28633 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA01178; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:23:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:23:30 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Greg Brandow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD vs BSDI In-Reply-To: <19980215043441.AAA5156@grb> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Greg Brandow wrote: > 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. You've come to the right place. :) > How close is FreeBSD to BSDI? Very. While I can't speak for BSDI 3.0 since we dumped it at 2.whatever.it.was, the main difference I saw was that many of the FreeBSD commands had many more options than their BSDI counterparts. Every BSDI binary that we attempted to run on FreeBSD ran, though we did have to copy some of the shared libraries. Our password files were originally from BSDI so we had to compile FreeBSD to handle the 16 character usernames. When we tried to alias an IP from a different Class C then the primary address, on several different Ethernet cards in several different BSDI machines, every one of them would loose all their routes and go incommunicado within 5 to 15 minutes. We've since had a FreeBSD box happily live on two Class Cs with one NIC for 233 days. It probably would have been over 250 by now but I had to add some hardware in that box. > Where do Linux and Red Hat Linux figure in the equation. I had a Slackware box set up for about a month to 'borrow' some driver code. Coming from a BSD background, it's "different". Not one frown was seen in the NOC the day I put a FreeBSD boot disk into that box. :) > We are an ISP and are primarily looking for something to test websites and > scripts. For those purposes, I wouldn't consider any flavor of Linux. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message