Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:24:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 or 5.1? Message-ID: <3F26211F.23C22A2E@mindspring.com> References: <101FCF65-C11C-11D7-89ED-0003930506C8@sbcglobal.net> <20030728171842.GB14416@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Jeremy Kemp wrote: > > [/lurk] > > I just inherited a DEC AlphaServer 1000/266 to play with, and I'm > > curious if anyone has a recommendation of whether I should install > > FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. Background includes some Linux/Unix, and I > > Both should work without incidents. For now I recommend 4.8. > > > currently run Mac OS X Server, which is based on FreeBSD (or is it > > Open? I can't remember). > > FreeBSD. OSF Mach 3.0, NeXTStep, BSD4.4-Lite2, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. Much of the userland code is FreeBSD-derived. It's fun to look in the header files in /usr/include/sys, if you have the developer CD installed. -- Terry
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