Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:48:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Arney@agape.twu.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's Message-ID: <19980112174818.31065@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34BC4E77.303C@agape.twu.ca>; from Nathanael Arney on Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:34:47PM -0800 References: <34BC4E77.303C@agape.twu.ca>
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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. > good support on learning the system (right now I know about 0.000) FreeBSD. > (does knowing dos help?) Not much :-) > cool people behind the project FreeBSD! Seriously, there's not much difference between the three, but NetBSD concentrates more on multiple platforms (if you have, say, a Sparc, you currently don't have much choice: NetBSD), while FreeBSD concentrates more on as smooth as possible an implementation on Intel, including things like easy installation and ease of use for newcomers. I don't know enough about OpenBSD to comment. They're a spinoff of NetBSD. Greg
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