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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:43:11 -0600
From:      "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
To:        Keex@gmx.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is the difference between linux and freebsd?
Message-ID:  <20010205064311.A15589@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <10809.981375436@www28.gmx.net>; from Keex@gmx.de on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:17:16PM %2B0100
References:  <10809.981375436@www28.gmx.net>

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:17:16PM +0100, Keex@gmx.de wrote:
> Anyway, I have some Linux experience, will it help me, if I installed
> FreeBSD? what are the basic differences between those OS's? does FreeBSD also run
> on a PI 75 MHz, 16MB RAM, and only 200MB HD-space available, to be ran as
> HTTP-server, router (lan -> Internet) and automatic email fetching and delivering
> it to several machines on the lan offline?
> 
> There'S one I know about FreeBSD, from the gslug.org message board, that BSD
> is a little bit more stable, but that's all. any other differences?

More stable, and a different development model then Linux. Functionality
is pretty much the same for the purposes you have described.

Yes it will run on that hardware.
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Victor R. Cardona 
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