Chris, I ran FreeBSD back in the 2.x days back at another company, I have a machine or two here that run it also (unix6 - uptime 229 days!). The main difference between FreeBSD and Linux is that FreeBSD is BSD-like unix and Linux is more SysV like unix. Generally any unix that's not a *BSD is System V like. FreeBSD has more of a core team of developers, it's not as close to the bazaar model as Linux is. The most notable thing about it is that it's rock-solid. The BSD TCP stack is probably the best in the world, which is why many vendors use it for non-computer devices and many vendors base their firewall/NAT/router products on BSD code. Here are the different BSD's and what they are: FreeBSD - the "linux" of the BSD's, very good all-around OS OpenBSD - designed to be the most secure operating system, they took the BSD code and did a complete audit for buffer overflows and other nasties NetBSD - designed to be the most portable, it runs on all sorts of platforms BSD/OS - (aka BSDI) - the commercial version of BSD. They now own Walnut Creek (cdrom.com) and Slackware (well, they don't really "own" it...). FreeBSD is an excellent operating system, and I urge you to try it if you have some spare hardware lying around. My first BSD system was a 486/100 running FreeBSD 2.2.6 called Desire. Desire only did DNS and backup mail, but it was incredibly reliable. It's fairly easy to setup, but a bit different from Linux. The package management is also very cool. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Chris Opp wrote: > > > Got a quick question- > > I was at the store last night and I saw freeBSD software being sold. It > grabbed my attention so I picked up the box and looked it over. Too my > amazement it looks similiar to Linux. How is BSD different from Linux? From > what I read on the box it didn't look like much. I guess that there is > probably more than meets the eye with this, so could someone please > elaborate for me? I think it was version 4.4.x or something. It had KDE and > I think GNOME and many of the same tools and programs as the popular linux > distributions. > > > Thanks, > > Chris Opp > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org