From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 21:54:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vulcan.cmp.com (vulcan.cmp.com [192.155.65.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B593614D20 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lbruno@cmp.com) Received: from NotesSMTP-01.cmp.com (gw59-84.cmp.com [192.155.59.84]) by vulcan.cmp.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA14380 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:54:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by NotesSMTP-01.cmp.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (733.2 10-16-1998)) id 8525672A.00205D5C ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:53:30 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: CMPNOTES From: lbruno@cmp.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <8525672A.00205CC7.00@NotesSMTP-01.cmp.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:53:25 -0800 Subject: Technical questions about BSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm in the process of writing a feature story about open source Linux and BSD. I'm doing some comparisons between them and commercial NOSes such as Netware and NT. However, I have a few unresolved questions I need answered. First, I am curious to know how many thousands of lines of code make up the BSD kernel? Second, what hardware platforms does it run on Intel, SPARC, Amiga, Alpha---etc.? What scripting languages can be used with BSD-- such as TCL, C, C++, PERL, Java, Bourne, Korn ...etc.? What is the maximum number of processors that FreeBSD can run on a SMP box--- 16 or 32? What are some basic differences between BSD and Linux? What directories does an administrator working with FreeBSD have an option of using--- NIS from Sun, DNS, X.500--others? What is the maximum file size that can run on a FreeBSD operating system-- 64 Mbytes? Is clustering supported on FreeBSD? What is the minimum footprint of hard disk memory that BSD can run on? Can you point out any other significant differences between FreeBSD and other versions of BSD, such as OpenBSD and NetBSD? Similarly, can you point out any differences between FreeBSD and Linux---as well as NT and Netwre? Hope this isn't too much to ask...the trouble is I couldn't locate the info in any other place. Is it possible to get the answers to my questions within the next 24 hours? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks Lee Bruno Software and Security Editor Data Communications magazine lbruno@cmp.com 650-513-4432 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message