From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 13:16:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18480 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:16:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18467 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA14296; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:16:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: paula@mgh.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Difference between BSDI and freeBSD In-Reply-To: <326FB401.1B4F@mgh.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 paula@mgh.org wrote: > Can you please tell me the difference between freeBSD and BSDI. We have > an internet site using the BSDI unix and it was $1,000 per machine. > Will programs and utilities work on both systems? I am a novice unix > user at best so please answer accordingly. Thanks. Yes, most BSDi binaries will cross over to FreeBSD ok. Devices won't however. You'd have to try the application(s) in question and see. At least freebsd doesn't cost anything to install and run :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major