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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!news.stealth.net!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <57db1d$3gb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <329609B9.4EF5@waveinter.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1167 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31550 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5348 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. ;-)