From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 0:19:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264F2153E6 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:19:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA29559; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:18:57 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199912202156.NAA04539@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:18:56 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Bob Udderwein Subject: RE: Linux vs. FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Dec-99 Bob Udderwein wrote: > The company I work for currently uses (please don't laugh) > version 2.0 of FreeBSD, at least that is what uname -a > says. We sell a turnkey, networking solution, including > proprietary hardware and software in a PC running > FreeBSD. > > We are debating moving to 3.3 or 3.4 of FreeBSD, or > abandoning FreeBSD in favor of Redhat Linux, version > 6.1. > > I'm fighting against Linux and need some information > about FreeBSD that I couldn't find at freebsd.org > or elsewhere on the Net: > > What version of BIND is in the 3.3 and 3.4 versions? lagrange> uname -v FreeBSD 3.4-RC #0: Fri Dec 17 09:16:48 CET 1999 mj@lagrange.isy.liu.se:/usr/src/sys/comp LAGRANGE2 lagrange> named -v named 8.2.2-P5-NOESW Thu Dec 16 17:17:02 CET 1999 mj@lagrange.isy.liu.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named > What version of Kerberos is supported? Kerberos4, as from my 3.4-RC, too. (Someone more knowledgeable than I should probably have answered this one) > Any real time O/S extensions? Not as I know of. Nothing like RT Linux anyway. > FreeBSD run on any hardware besides x86? Yes, alpha too > Any *facts* on which is more stable? > Any *facts* on which is better for TCP/IP? Facts seem very difficult to obtain. Too much religoius warfare involved these days. (I'd vote for BSD though:) > Do we have to share with the world the source > code for our application software, or device > drivers? NO! >Same or different with Linux? GPL says you must share. Dunno if that is actually done in every instance. You should get both licenses and compare for yourself. On your 2.0-system there should be a file COPYRIGHT or similar, perhaps in /. The GPL must be on the net somewhere... ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message