From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 11:29:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA16517 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:29:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA16496 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00311; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:27:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199801121927.OAA00311@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: BSD's In-Reply-To: <19980112174818.31065@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 12, 98 05:48:18 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:27:55 -0500 (EST) Cc: Arney@agape.twu.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey said: > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:34:47PM -0800, Nathanael Arney wrote: > > I, not knowing much about BSD, would like to know the difference between > > the different versions(?) of BSD (eg. open, free etc.). > > > > I have a intel based pc 200mmx and 32meg of ram. > > > > important to me are: > > > > easy instilation > > FreeBSD > > > emulation of other unixs (including linux) > > FreeBSD. I think. > (NetBSD, OpenBSD) are perhaps a little better with esoteric emulations. However, I think that for multimedia emulation of Linux, FreeBSD is better. Otherwise, for SCO binaries, etc, each is probably pretty good. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.