From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 19:27:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01143 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01082 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA24796; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:26:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Greg Lehey , Arney@agape.twu.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's In-Reply-To: <199801121927.OAA00311@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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