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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs. 386BSD vs. FreeBSD
Date: 25 Nov 1996 23:44:45 GMT
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Chuck Rose <chuck@waveinter.com> wrote:

> I have a question.  I currently use BSDI 2.0.1 and I've seen alot of
> talk about both 386BSD and FreeBSD.  What I'm wondering is what are the
> differences among these different packages?  How do they handle PPP

Check out Dave Burgess FAQ in the respective .announce groups.  It
contains some comparisions.  (Btw, 386BSD is dead.)

> connections or news or mail etc compared to the way that BSDI does?  I'm
> thinking of adding either of these for secondary functions on my ISP
> service.  I like BSDI alot, and I'm hoping that if I do try one of these
> systems out for say a mail server, that it won't be like stepping onto
> an entirely new planet.  Any comments would be appreciated.

They've all got the same ancestor, 4.4BSD-Lite(2).  This makes them
largely compatible to each other.  They all have something specific.
So it's probably best if you give it a try.  You don't gotta spend
much bucks in buying it (e.g. the official CD-ROM price for FreeBSD is
~ USD 40, i believe, with the ``street price'' being lower), and you
should get a good overview of what these systems can do, and how they
do it, say by playing with them for a couple of days.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)