From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 19:58:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA20565 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate.gateway.net.hk (john@gateway.hk.linkage.net [202.76.7.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA20550 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by gate.gateway.net.hk (8.7.4/8.6.12) id LAA20925; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:53:57 +0800 (HKT) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:53:56 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: dennis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI In-Reply-To: <199603061712.MAA01549@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, dennis wrote: > >6. $995 is without source code. It is very handy to have source code > >when a problem arises and you cannot understand what is happening. > >7. BSDI comes with more systems configured but all of the ISP packages > >are available as packages (self installing) or ports (nearly so). > > You missed one of the most important ones. With FreeBSD, you can > tune your generic kernel to match your devices...with BSD/OS you have > to match your devices to their generic kernel to boot initially. > No, you can change IRQ, ports and DMA addresses at boot time in BSDI in much the same way you can with FreeBSD . Also even without source code you can recompile the kernel to fit the devices you have. jbeukema > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > >