Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:26:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Arney@agape.twu.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113192548.24708K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801121927.OAA00311@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > Greg Lehey said: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:34:47PM -0800, Nathanael Arney wrote: > > > I, not knowing much about BSD, would like to know the difference between > > > the different versions(?) of BSD (eg. open, free etc.). > > > > > > I have a intel based pc 200mmx and 32meg of ram. > > > > > > important to me are: > > > > > > easy instilation > > > > FreeBSD > > > > > emulation of other unixs (including linux) > > > > FreeBSD. I think. > > > (NetBSD, OpenBSD) are perhaps a little better with esoteric > emulations. However, I think that for multimedia emulation > of Linux, FreeBSD is better. Otherwise, for SCO binaries, > etc, each is probably pretty good. I believe the expression is `FreeBSD runs SCO better than SCO runs SCO.' I think s/SCO/Linux/ is also true :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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