From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 22:38:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA23480 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA23469 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:38:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA14153; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:07:50 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971126170750.56606@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:07:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: spork Cc: Mike Smith , francisco@federation.addy.com, FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Help me reply to Infoworld correspondent: what is diff between BSDI and FreeBSD? References: <19971126144705.64183@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from spork on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 01:23:36AM -0500 Organisation: 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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 01:23:36AM -0500, spork wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 01:43:58PM +1030, Mike Smith wrote: >>>> In this week's Infoworld there is a review on Red Hat Linux. I wrote >>>> to the author (Eric Hammond) telling him about FreeBSD. He mentioned >>>> He recently did a review in which he included BSDI and also said >>>> there is another review in which BSDI will be included. >>>> >>>> I am familiar with FreeBSD Vs Linux discussions (and even a bit about >>>> Open BSD, Net BSD), but never really have seen much about BSDI. >>>> >>>> One of the things he wrote was: >>>> "I'm assuming that Internet Server is the commercial version of >>>> FreeBSD. >>>> Correct me if I'm wrong." >>>> By internet Server he is referring to BSDI. >>>> >>>> How different are these products (BSDI and FreeBSD)? >>> >>> In many regards, enormously. >>> >>>> I can prepare some little promo to send to him telling him about >>>> FreeBSD, but I want to answer his comment about BSDI vs FreeBSD. >>> >>> (much good stuff about the difference between free and commercial >>> omitted) >> >> Agreed, but that's not the point Francisco (or Eric) was making. >> What's the technical difference? >> >> This is probably flame bait, but I'd say "not much". Recall that as a >> normal user (not buyer), you're interested neither in the way the >> software is devloped and distributed, nor in implementation details. >> And BSD/OS is close enough in feel to FreeBSD that I've mistaken one >> for the other on my own network from time to time. >> >> Still, it's oversimplifying things to say that BSD/OS is a commercial >> version of FreeBSD. Those days are, indeed, past. IMO the days are >> also past when BSD/OS was obviously better than FreeBSD. > > There was also a rather insulting article in LanTimes about a month ago. > The people did just not have a clue. It was an "introduction" about how > one could stick a dirty little Unix box in the corner to grab mail and do > "intranet" tasks in your NT shop. Most of it focused on Linux, and they > repeatedly made the mistake of calling BSDi "BSD". Never aassign to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I don't think many of these people mean to belittle BSD variants, they just haven't done their homework. I seem to recall this Peggy King woman's name in that connection. BTW, why do so many people on this list write BSDi instead of BSDI? It's certainly not what they call themselves. Greg