Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 01:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD, NetBSD vs FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911220144350.324-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <3838CAD6.78E98E9B@S1.com>
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> <snip> > > > > > with an Alpha port and (I think) a PowerPC port - correct me if I'm > > > wrong - or see <www.freebsd.org> > > > > I'm not sure about the Light part here. FreeBSD is used on the most > > heavily loaded servers on the internet: cdrom.com, yahoo.com, and > > hotmail.com. It hasn't been ported to the PowerPC either, It is however > > (as far as I know) still being ported to Sparc, and it works on x86, and > > alpha processors. > > > > Indeed, Kenneth, I meant "light" as in "not heavy on system resources", > unlike certain other O/S's we shan't mention in this forum ;') Oops, my bad :-) I thought you meant it the other way. > > Allix, as Kenneth points out, there are many good reasons to choose > FreeBSD. But as Ryan also mentioned, here is not the place to start a > flame-war on "myBSD is better than yourBSD" :') You've started well by > asking questions. Go and check out the web sites of each of the BSDs and > read for yourself just what is available and what each can do for you. I'd have to agree with that; truthfully, I'd use whatever BSD suits your purposes the best. > > Be aware though, that using one of the *BSD O/Ss, you won't have the > latest and greatest "toys", but you surely will have a heap of fun > playing with a robust, stable operating system. > > |-| > And you can still get most of the latest and greatest goodies to work one way or another (I just got quake3 for linux to run under emulation... QUAKE!!!) :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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