Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:55:19 -0600 (CST) From: John Goerzen <goerzenj@complete.org> To: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: User-level and administrative diff's between BSDi and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960102225439.229A-100000@complete.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951231001840.375A-100000@ncc-1701-d>
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I may be wrong, but I thought that Taylor UUCP could be configured (or compiled) to use HDB configs. On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Donald Burr wrote: > I just picked up the latest edition of "UNIX System Administration > Handbook" (an EXCELLENT reference text, btw; I'll be sending highest > kudos to the authors). > > While it doesn't go into details about any of the Free*BSD's nor Linux, > it DOES go into details of a lot of the workstation OS's, including HPUX, > Solaris, ... as well as BSDi on 80x86's. > > So, my question is: how "similar" or "dissimilar" is BSDi from FreeBSD? > in terms of the user interface, system admin tools, programming > environment, etc.? (i.e. are most of the user-land commands available in > FreeBSD, available on BSDi and do they work similarly? And > vice-versa)... well, you get the idea. > > I know there'll be differences, and I'm expecting that: f.e. I know that > BSDi uses its own UUCP derived from the original BSD UUCP, with its own > enhancements, while FreeBSD uses Taylor UUCP with the weird Taylor-style > config files (I much prefer standard HDB configs, but that's another > story). So I'm not expecting them to be THE SAME. > > I just figured that BSDi, since both it and FreeBSD were based on the > 4.4-lite (please correct me if I'm wrong on this), that they should be, > in large part, fairly similar. Of course, I've never used BSDi, so I > can't say this with conviction. That's why I'm asking you folks :) > > Please let me know. Thanks! > > Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 > TEL (805)564-1871 / FAX 564-2315 / WWW http://www.geopages.com/WallStreet/2072 > PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or on Public Key Servers. > ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. ** >
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