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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!izzy.net!aanews.merit.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.ogitel.net!usenet From: Brian Beattie <beattie@stt3.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:02:42 -0700 Organization: Dynamics Research Corporation, Commercial Systems Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31BD8A92.41C67EA6@stt3.com> References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: stt3.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Jan Hurst wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a reasonable amount of experience running both Linux and BSDi but > have never had much of a chance to try out Free or NetBSD. Does anyone > have any comments as to whether FreeBSD would be better than Linux when > connecting to a BSDi system? Are FreeBSD and BSDi very similar? > > Any help would be appreciated... > > Jan Hurst > -- > jhurst@bekkers.com.au FreeBSD and BSDi are extremely similar, they are both based on BSD4.4 Lite and have not had much time to diverge. -- Brian Beattie +1.503.690.1570 x6116 Dynamics Research Corporation 19545 NW Von Neumann Dr FAX 690.1569 Beaverton, OR 97006-6998 beattie@stt3.com "I am Pentium of the Borg. Division is futile. you will be approximated!"