From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 4:39:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAFB37B699 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 04:38:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010205123859.XFTL13648.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 04:38:59 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id GAA15603; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:43:11 -0600 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:43:11 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Keex@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the difference between linux and freebsd? Message-ID: <20010205064311.A15589@home.com> Mail-Followup-To: Keex@gmx.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <10809.981375436@www28.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <10809.981375436@www28.gmx.net>; from Keex@gmx.de on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:17:16PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:17:16PM +0100, Keex@gmx.de wrote: > Anyway, I have some Linux experience, will it help me, if I installed > FreeBSD? what are the basic differences between those OS's? does FreeBSD also run > on a PI 75 MHz, 16MB RAM, and only 200MB HD-space available, to be ran as > HTTP-server, router (lan -> Internet) and automatic email fetching and delivering > it to several machines on the lan offline? > > There'S one I know about FreeBSD, from the gslug.org message board, that BSD > is a little bit more stable, but that's all. any other differences? More stable, and a different development model then Linux. Functionality is pretty much the same for the purposes you have described. Yes it will run on that hardware. -- Victor R. Cardona GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message