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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news3.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD Date: 1 Dec 1995 10:24:23 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <49n6n7$9qc@access4.digex.net> References: <30BC9A25.485989E8@sun.felk.cvut.cz> <49kk69$6es@zuul.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: access4.digex.net In article <49kk69$6es@zuul.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <30BC9A25.485989E8@sun.felk.cvut.cz>, >Hnipak <xpour@sun.felk.cvut.cz> wrote: >> I've been using linux for some time and I feel I'd like to try >> other unices and these two - FreeBSD and NetBSD - came to my mind >> first. I hope I'm not totally wrong when posting to this group... >> So, what are the diferences in getting them, copying policies, >> hardware requirements, comparing running them as net servers and >> as 'single' user workstations, ... thanks a LOT... > >FreeBSD and NetBSD (and OpenBSD) are similar in many ways to the different >Linux distributions (Red Hat, Debian, Yggdrasil, etc). NetBSD pushes the >fact that they have lots of ports to different architectures, and a cleaner >kernel to support these ports. FreeBSD pushes the quality of their 80[3456]86 >implementation, number of drivers, ported software, ease of installation, >and so on. OpenBSD seems to be a NetBSD spinoff. There used to be another >version called 386BSD but nobody's heard of that one in a long time. There's >also a commercial system called BSD/386 from BSDI... I've heard that FreeBSD supports some kind of Linux emulation mode...How good is it, and does NetBSD support this as well? I am preparing to buy a Pentium system for UNIX, and would much rather stay with BSD, but Linux seems to have all the support. And, does either BSD support both the ELF and a.out Linux executable formats? Thanks. (Sorry for taking this discussion out on a tangent. I'm a Mac and UNIX person; never bought a PC before...) -David. -- ________________________________________ David C. Myers dcmyers@access.digex.net