From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 15:42:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA23659 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from water.waterw.com (water.waterw.com [199.171.193.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA23652 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from steve (access34.accsyst.com [207.8.148.161]) by water.waterw.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA20706 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 18:42:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970901223724.00691920@waterw.com> X-Sender: smilley@waterw.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 18:37:24 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Stephen Milley Subject: FreeBSD Snapshot version Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I downloaded the FreeBSD SnapShot version, and installed it in my system. I later found out it's better for me to go with FreeBSD-Current :) But, I was curious as to why(and people are asking on IRC, too) they took out /stand/sysconfig in Snap shot version 3. There also some other things about it that I find challenging, but unusual! One of them was the fact that you had only 4 ttys when you first installed, and had to make 8 from doing a "/dev/MAKEDEV vty4", all the way up to vty7 and add them to /etc/ttys. I also don't know how to get rid of the devices that show up in startup that say they aren't assigned to any port address(they give the specific addresses, which I like about FreeBSD). I think FreeBSD, however is the best OS that came out of them all. If you don't understand error messages then don't use Unix! :) Even though I am going to install the current version, I am curious as to what changed! Thanks and please reply to as much as these questions, as I also see these issues related on IRC(mostly concerning the FreeBSD2.2 and up). :) P.S. Btw, is FreeBSD Posix compliant?