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, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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