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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!emory!swrinde!news.uh.edu!nuchat!frobozz!kevin From: kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) Subject: Re: net / free bsd ? References: <1994Mar21.164228.20207@news.csuohio.edu> <2mkvci$e1p@cronkite.cisco.com> <1994Mar22.150117.22837@news.csuohio.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 02:46:24 GMT Organization: Frobozzco International Message-ID: <Cn791D.B84@frobozz.sccsi.com> Lines: 39 In article <1994Mar22.150117.22837@news.csuohio.edu> llunch@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Jason Baker) writes: >In article <2mkvci$e1p@cronkite.cisco.com> ahasty@muadib.cisco.com writes: >> Jason Baker wrote in article <1994Mar21.164228.20207@news.csuohio.edu> : >>> >>> Please go on. I am putting together a pc, and once I get a >>>hard disk I will put bsd on it. I would really like to know what ARE >>>the differences between the two versions. >>> >> >>Try both they are free. > >>Perhaps if you state what is it that you are going to use >>the system for we may be able to help you out a bit more. >> > I want to program dsp based sound cards. This would probably >entail writing device drivers and/or running wine to use things like >analog devices' _dsp manager_. Aside from that, I will basicly be >reading the news and writing programs and papers for school. I don't know if either BSD supports this or not, but Linux has the ability to load device drivers when running, i.e. in multiuser mode. For doing the DSP work you're interested in doing, it might be easier under Linux. But I don't know for sure. Linux isn't BSD, though, so you might not be interested in running it on your machine. If you want to do IP networking, BSD would almost certainly be a better solution, since the networking in Linux still has a few bugs to be worked out of it (I'm really surprised they're not using the BSD networking port for Linux instead of rolling their own. I'm not quite sure I understand the reasons for that). For the other stuff you want to do, basically any system will work, since they all support the same software (mail, news, various text processors, X11, various software development utilities, etc.). -- Kevin Brown kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com This is your .signature virus: < begin 644 .signature (9V]T8VAA(0K0z end > This is your .signature virus on drugs: <> Any questions?