From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 10:31:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13441 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13435 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA00913; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:30:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199603051830.KAA00913@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:30:42 -0800 (PST) From: "JULIAN Elischer" Cc: aho@hyh.pc.my, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603051801.NAA08077@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Mar 5, 96 01:01:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk jkh writes... >Evaluate them both and see what you think. > >Sorry, but our position on this is that we won't make "use xxx over >yyy" statements given that it's impossible to even answer this >question correctly for any given query. Different people have >different needs, and whereas FreeBSD might be the clear choice for >one, BSDI may be a clear choice for another. > >In other words, we're not going to give you a canned answer, nor will >we attempt to cite "reasons" which may or may not even be relevant to >your situation. Get whichever OS the person who will be *maintaining* >your system is most comfortable with. > >Regards, > > Jordan > > My personal idea woudl be, "As FreeBSD is Free, you lose nothing by trying it out, and if you don't like it you can then pay for BSDI. Most of what you learned on FreeBSD will be relevant for FeeBSD^H^H^H^H^H^H BSDI.