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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:27:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        Arney@agape.twu.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD's
Message-ID:  <199801121927.OAA00311@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980112174818.31065@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 12, 98 05:48:18 pm"

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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.


-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
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