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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:26:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael G. Thompson" <mthompsn@mica.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980208212519.24904K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34D8BF52.3042F32D@mica.edu>

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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Michael G. Thompson wrote:

> Our organization is looking to migrate off of Unixware 2.1.2 (I hear you
> groaning, believe me, I sympathize.)  I've worked with BSDI 3.2, and
> liked it, but BSDI wants a _rediculous_ amount of money for a 2-server
> (one and a mirror) site.  How far has FreeBSD diverged from BSDI?  In
> addition, can FBSD support server mirroring and clustering?  Thanks in
> advance.

FreeBSD doesn't support clustering directly at this time.  Otherwise
FreeBSD and BSDi share the same 4.4BSD-Lite code base.  There are some
differences, but generally most BSDi binaries and code will compile/run on
FreeBSD with minor changes.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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