From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 02:06:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA21079 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 02:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA21064 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 02:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA04331 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 02:06:13 -0700 Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0uEBH6-000QYIC; Tue, 30 Apr 96 10:59 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA00433; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:56:18 +0200 Message-Id: <199604300856.KAA00433@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Differents between FreeBSD and NetBSD To: geis@apx08.physik.uni-frankfurt.de (Gunter Geis) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:56:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9604291104.AA20924@apx08.physik.uni-frankfurt.de> from "Gunter Geis" at Apr 29, 96 01:04:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gunter Geis writes: > > What I want to know is what is the different between > FreeBSD and NetBSD.Is there a big different or is it > only the name wich one is the better choice for Amiga > Computers or PC-Clones? Well, you don't have much choice with Amigas: FreeBSD doesn't run on them. As for PCs, *of course* FreeBSD is better :-) Seriously, the differences are small but could be significant. > If I want to built a small local net of Computers > would it be better to take NetBSD because there is > the netsupport build in or is it equal? Both systems have pretty much the same network support. The "Net" in "NetBSD" refers to the Internet, not networking support. I don't think there's much difference between the two, but others may know better. > Maybe you can give me some informations. Martin Cracauer has done a web page on the differences between FreeBSD and NetBSD. It's very much a personal viewpoint, and I don't agree with everything he says, but it might give you a feeling of what the differences are like. I believe it's at http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/bsd/cracauer/, but he was going to change it. I also believe that it is available both in English and German; this is the German version. You should be able to find the English version easily enough from this point of view. Greg