Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 00:23:41 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: User-level and administrative diff's between BSDi and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951231001840.375A-100000@ncc-1701-d>
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I just picked up the latest edition of "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (an EXCELLENT reference text, btw; I'll be sending highest kudos to the authors). While it doesn't go into details about any of the Free*BSD's nor Linux, it DOES go into details of a lot of the workstation OS's, including HPUX, Solaris, ... as well as BSDi on 80x86's. So, my question is: how "similar" or "dissimilar" is BSDi from FreeBSD? in terms of the user interface, system admin tools, programming environment, etc.? (i.e. are most of the user-land commands available in FreeBSD, available on BSDi and do they work similarly? And vice-versa)... well, you get the idea. I know there'll be differences, and I'm expecting that: f.e. I know that BSDi uses its own UUCP derived from the original BSD UUCP, with its own enhancements, while FreeBSD uses Taylor UUCP with the weird Taylor-style config files (I much prefer standard HDB configs, but that's another story). So I'm not expecting them to be THE SAME. I just figured that BSDi, since both it and FreeBSD were based on the 4.4-lite (please correct me if I'm wrong on this), that they should be, in large part, fairly similar. Of course, I've never used BSDi, so I can't say this with conviction. That's why I'm asking you folks :) Please let me know. Thanks! Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 TEL (805)564-1871 / FAX 564-2315 / WWW http://www.geopages.com/WallStreet/2072 PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or on Public Key Servers. ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. **
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