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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!news.wctc.net!spcuna!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. BSDI Date: 12 Oct 1995 02:11:56 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <45hthc$qcd@tzlink.j51.com> References: <45bt9b$ism@tzlink.j51.com> <DG7xJM.6xJ@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : Louis Epstein (lepslog@j51.com) wrote: : : As I've noted,I'm planning to use FreeBSD on my nascent ISP(the digital : : circuit and phone lines are coming in this week,the computers hopefully : : next,the modems the week after). : : : : However,the guy who is selling my systems wants to install BSDI,which he : : is familiar with,and the guy who recommended FreeBSD to me is not familiar : : with the differences between FreeBSD and BSDI. : If it's BSDI 2.0 then they are more alike then they're different. They're : both based on bsd 4.4lite. : : I do NOT want to have to keep upgrading a commercial-product license as I : : expand my network. : BSDI charges a lot more for user licences suitable for ISP use. (Exactly.I haven't seen their price list,but I've seen SCO's,and didn't like the look of it). : : So if I install the OS-independent Internet apps while waiting for 2.1 : : to reach release status,and then convert the OS to 2.1 when it comes out : : and take the network live,what differences will I encounter between BSDI : : and FreeBSD? : You probably don't want to do this. It would be a major pain in the : ass. Just intall FreeBSD 2.0.5R or one of the latest snap releases. : They're quite stable. One person who responded by email said that BSDI was more stable than FreeBSD. : Also, if you have to support the users on the machines, you're : probably much better off just buying machines with NO operating : system and install what you want from scratch. At least then you : know what you've got. I'll install FreeBSD on top of whatever it comes with rather soon...