From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 08:38:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA28532 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:38:56 -0700 Received: from linpc9.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de (root@linpc9.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de [193.174.80.209]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA28524 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:38:51 -0700 Received: (from job@localhost) by linpc9.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA00848; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:34:57 GMT Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:34:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Jockel Both To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: whats the difference Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk hello, i'm strongly interested in installing the 4.4 version of bsd. but i'm in doubt about the several distributions you may offer. i'm owner of a intel pc and have figured out that i should install the 4.4 bsd-lite based version 2.0.5 or better 2.1. what i wonder about is the word ``lite''. what does lite mean? is it a smaller distribution then the genuine 4.4bsd? does it lack some commands or is it in any way functionally restricted? and even if, whats the name of the fully equiped bsd? i would be very much obliged to tank you if you could give me an answer about this (may be missleading) lite. Jockel Both Tel: +[49]-931/286738 email: Jockel.Both@linpc9.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de