difference in the BSD distro's ?
DukeNM
1) FreeBSD
2) NetBSD
3) OpenBSD
sorry but a newbie to BSD.
Philipp Buehler
> whats the difference between
I think hell will freeze over, before people will
learn to use a search engine.
> sorry but a newbie to BSD.
man diff
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Paul Douglas
news:slrnaktl...@world.cabal1.net:
> * DukeNM (akshay...@joymail.com) wrote:
>> whats the difference between
>
> I think hell will freeze over, before people will
> learn to use a search engine.
>
>> sorry but a newbie to BSD.
>
> man diff
>
> ciao
I agree about the search engine thing but many people
go to a specific ng with a specific question looking
for an answer from a real person. Could you at least
point to the ng faq (is there one?)or are you just here
to belittle people who know less than you?
Yea I'm just a new lurker who is looking to learn about
all flavors of BSD. Thanks.
tedu
> I agree about the search engine thing but many people
> go to a specific ng with a specific question looking
> for an answer from a real person. Could you at least
> point to the ng faq (is there one?)or are you just here
> to belittle people who know less than you?
"What's the difference?" doesn't count as a specific question.
FreeBSD has tcsh installed as /bin/csh. OpenBSD and NetBSD don't.
NetBSD runs on a Cobalt Qube2. OpenBSD and FreeBSD don't.
OpenBSD can encrypt swap. NetBSD and FreeBSD don't.
I hope that explains the differences you were interested in.
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Paul Douglas
news:Pine.BSO.4.44.020805...@heorot.stanford.edu:
I wasn't interested.
For the original poster though here's URL to the source:
Martin Reindl
> I agree about the search engine thing but many people
> go to a specific ng with a specific question looking
> for an answer from a real person. Could you at least
> point to the ng faq (is there one?)or are you just here
> to belittle people who know less than you?
>
> Yea I'm just a new lurker who is looking to learn about
> all flavors of BSD. Thanks.
Personally, i think 80% of the questions regarding OpenBSD are covered by
www.openbsd.org itself (faq, manpages), 10% of the answers comes from
various searche engines, and the rest belongs to mailing list, ngs etc..
The question "what are the difference in the BSD distros" isn't one in my
opinion, because there are no BSD distros, they share some code but they
have completely different kernel and systems.
I like OpenBSD because of it handles things straight and proper (it starts
with the installation .. unmachable when it comes to efficiency) and it
gives me the opportunity to build my systems the way i like them, from the
beginning. No unnecessary files, no fancy stuff, just working. And i'm not a
kernel hacker, just a user who stands on his own feet ;) So if you want to
try out BSD ... do it!
tedu
That page is horribly dated. Hopefully, when the new version is released
after more than three years of revamping, it will be quite spectacular.
It contains no more than a link to each project's homepage. The single
link to a comparison webpage is useless. It essentially says, "FreeBSD is
better than NetBSD, so I don't use NetBSD. GPL sucks." No mention of
OpenBSD at all.
Now, typing "openbsd netbsd freebsd comparison" into www.google.com[1]
provides some interesting results. The very first link might be
insightful, definitely more so than the bsd.org page.
[1] - left as an exercise for the reader.
Phobos
all the time simply because they think they're better than others? I'm
sure that at one point you were all as new to BSD as DukeNM is, and
there's nothing wrong with asking for the opinions of real people.
That's what newsgroups are for. Not to mention that if you're new to BSD
then reading the websites for the different releases might not answer
your questions as the answers you seek might lie inbetween the lines of
complex jargon. I'm somewhat new to BSD myself, but have been using it
for a few months. I still get lost in a lot of the stuff that's on the
websites of the different distros.
Just because you think you're smarter than someone else doesn't mean
it's fair to go around shouting "RTFM" and throwing URLS in peoples
faces. Why not take the time you were going to put into saying "You're a
moron, go away" and write out something constructive? Sometimes it helps
for people to get opinions of people who have actually used the various
software/OS to know the differences between them. I bet I could write an
email to M$ and ask them what's the best OS and they'll tell me Windows
and that it handles things far better than Linux does. Well duh, of
course they'll say that. But that's what reviews are for, and
reviews/opinions by the end user.
DukeNM: Unfortunately, I don't know enough to answer your original
question. All I know is that FreeBSD comes with a 4 cd distro, while the
FTP install of OpenBSD is only around 90mb or so. I suppose that those
extra cd's contain prebundled software, but I could be wrong. Good luck
on your journey, though.
John Doherty wrote:
> In article <f987cd53.02080...@posting.google.com>,
> akshay...@joymail.com (DukeNM) wrote:
>
> > whats the difference between
> > 1) FreeBSD
> > 2) NetBSD
> > 3) OpenBSD
>
> Reading these:
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org>
> <http://www.netbsd.org>
> <http://www.openbsd.org>
>
> ought to give you a pretty good idea.
>
> --
Lars Strand
> whats the difference between
> 1) FreeBSD
> 2) NetBSD
> 3) OpenBSD
>
You might want to read this article:
http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
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Lars Strand