From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 05:44:53 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8526216A421 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:44:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnjgsmith@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5BF13C4A3 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:44:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnjgsmith@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 28so2739463hub for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:44:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=r3ob+7HiKnQXR5XC4M9onRNNclRd6NLxRlGjwu7abFw=; b=hyab6zEJb/1lHUQ6w9g1Y0GTtTnMUipTmMUlMyH5xjcDLjQpWf2Yrp8MEeJBs+U6173LpcIzNQSx+59A817D1JWE27kdKK2fA57KlXxOvoXp0KleNY719HoEYzeniB8LVFAVaFmwm+v2VQn6LJ7KEpIlTJFrQrkau/ANHv5d1rg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=W3AxCGzHMAjyqfsiQ+PT0wpbWf0mktDvQLBUg3ss1UK3pUBnf470snQagOm5YuUTB4j0dk6IYQQBGVNMZizkoa6+Vs+cgABD/e+9WiBLv6fUeAadE0WVonqkscaUw25xD2T2k9RoVBmzMwuU13i9HBxu4wCOwaXkHhgbxGQcs6c= Received: by 10.82.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr10648297buc.1194846275224; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:44:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.182.17 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:44:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:44:35 -0600 From: "John Smith" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071110231057.GB90426@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071110154011.GB2060@kobe.laptop> <20071110230535.GA90426@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20071110231057.GB90426@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Cc: Subject: Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:44:53 -0000 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 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 wrote: > > > > On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith 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" >