From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 25 07:19:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA18785 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.colstate.edu (earth.ColState.EDU [168.26.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA18779 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colstate.edu (mercury.ColState.EDU [168.26.193.32]) by earth.colstate.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA05534 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:17:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CCMAIN/SpoolDir by colstate.edu (Mercury 1.32); 25 Sep 97 10:16:51 EST Received: from SpoolDir by CCMAIN (Mercury 1.32); 25 Sep 97 10:16:39 EST From: "Christian" Organization: Columbus State Univ., Columbus, Ga. To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:16:38 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: FreeBSD specialties Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Message-ID: <2178D50577@colstate.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, First of all I'm posting here because I know many of the FreeBSD gurus, (who would know the answer to my question), read this list, and because I'm not sure if it is appropriate for any other list. Here goes: I have been using FreeBSD since 1994 on our campus to handle many of the internet related tasks for us. Our web server, dns server, dhcp server, etc. all run FreeBSD. All of the things we do are pretty basic, and do not really take particular advantage of some advanced FreeBSD features, such as CCD, etc. So I do not know much about the bleeding-edge FreeBSD stuff. Anyways, one of my questions is, Are there things/features/capabilities in FreeBSD that other Operating Systems do not have? I'm not asking if FreeBSD does something better (i.e. webserving) , but if it does something others do not. Maybe freebsd has this special network service called xyz that other OSs do not have (this is an example). Also, what can FreeBSD do that linux cannot? (I ask this because FreeBSD does everything I need so well, that I have never really had the need/desire to install linux for comparison) Another question I had was versions of BSDI, Linux, and SCO can the various versions of FreeBSD emulate. Does -current, for example, support a higher version of BSDI binaries than -release? And what particular versions do they support, respectively? Thanks in advance, C.P. ---------------------------------------------- Christian Plazas Columbus State University (706)568-2063