Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:44:35 -0600 From: "John Smith" <johnjgsmith@gmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd Message-ID: <e1ca25ac0711112144g3e80b762q9865ea1733f9c925@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071110231057.GB90426@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <e1ca25ac0711091501p6adca6a4j68d902b455e0f2f2@mail.gmail.com> <20071110154011.GB2060@kobe.laptop> <e1ca25ac0711101345o6579dabcgf5ac96d6481099c2@mail.gmail.com> <20071110230535.GA90426@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20071110231057.GB90426@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Thanks, guys, for the information. This is really helpful. Giorgos, just apologizing that I used the word "level-headed". In hindsight "more informative" would have been more appropriate. I'm currently using PC-BSD - and the journey so far has been tremendous. Happy to be part of the BSD world ;-) On Nov 10, 2007 5:10 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: > > > > > I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is > > > a newbie supposed to know the differenced and how can I test this if I > > > don't have a spare machine? > > > > > > My question was more out of interest. This mailing list is called > > > FreeBSD-Questions, so why can't I asked a reasonable question and > > > expect a reasonable reply...? > > > > Because, like the software creation, the responses on the questions > > list are done by volunteers. You happened to get one who seemed > > to need to respond, but didn't have any information to respond with. > > Didn't notice who had made that response. It was by someone who would > really know, but was still unfortunately short on information. > > ////jerry > > > > > > > You will probably also get some more useful responses. (Sorry, I > > don't know much about nano, tiny or pico BSD except that those words > > tend to be used to imply very small) > > > > Of course, you could try to experiment. You could try dual-booting > > the machine you have and put those on the other part. > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 10, 2007 9:40 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > > > On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith <johnjgsmith@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between > > > > > nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. > > > > > > > > > > They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image > > > > > that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? > > > > > > > > What don't you experiment with them, and see? :) > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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