From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 08:15:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA18825 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:15:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18813 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:15:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA03918; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:17:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:17:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199603071617.LAA03918@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: John Beukema From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI Cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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 True, but its a pain and it doesn't save them so you have to do it every time until you get a kernel built. And you cant look at a list of devices easily to check for conflicts before you boot. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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