From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 19:36:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02059 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01659 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.de [192.109.197.137] (may be forged)) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01650; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:59:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA09318; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:59:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980114135905.45103@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:59:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: "John S. Dyson" , Arney@agape.twu.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's References: <199801121927.OAA00311@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:26:28PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:26:28PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > 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.' There's a certain truth to this, but don't go overboard. Thanks to the internal architecture, FreeBSD can often perform better than SCO on the same machine when running SCO programs. Nothing is more compatible with SCO than SCO, however, and sometimes it shows. > I think s/SCO/Linux/ is also true :-) I think you'd have a much harder time proving this one. Greg