Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:20:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>, Jorge Melhado <jrgmelhado@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020731151732.U44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <200208012010.33301.alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alex Drummond wrote: > From: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:10:33 +0000 Isn't there an RFC about CC'ing the original poster? Hurumph. > On Wednesday 31 July 2002 6:45 pm, Jorge Melhado wrote: > > Hi, I=B4d like to know the differences among OpenBSD x NetBSD x FreeBSD= =2E > > Thanks > > Jorge > > jrgmelhado@hotmail.com > > FreeBSD concentrates on the i386 and alpha platforms and is the only one = of > the three with SMP support (I think), which presumably makes it better fo= r > high-end servers. NetBSD and OpenBSD both concentrate on making the OS > portable to many different architectures, with OpenBSD also emphasising > security and encryption tools. FreeBSD has the largest ports collection o= f > the three, with NetBSD quite close behind and OpenBSD a long way off. Whi= ch > one to use basically comes down to personal preference (unless one of the= m > has some killer feature) so you can basically try all three or pick one a= t > random :) http://www.bsdforums.org is a good place to start, as well as each OS's individual websites (I'm assuming they each have their own). That reminds me. Where is www.freebsd.org hosted and who foots the bill? := ) > There is no Hell. There is only France. -Frank Zappa Mon dieu. Come on now, France is much better these days, even Parisians! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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