From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 17:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF8137B405 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBI1nEo95360; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: "D. Pille" Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD In-Reply-To: <000801c18757$c29454d0$31727fc3@nordwest.net> Message-ID: <20011217174436.B16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, D. Pille wrote: > is there anybody out there and can tell me the > differences between Free and Open!? > > Is there any point of view to prefer this or that > Unix-like OS? most of the differences are under the hood, and not visible to the average user. for a beginner to BSD, and a beginner in UNIX in general, i would suggest using FreeBSD. below the hood, the differences are staggarding (different cryptographic structures, networking, and disk drivers are just the beginning), and pretty much to numerous to list in a short email. > For a qualified answer waiting > and > with best regards i happen to run both, if you wish for a more detailed answer, please contact me off list. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message