Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:16:38 EST From: "Christian" <PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@COLSTATE.EDU> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD specialties Message-ID: <2178D50577@colstate.edu>
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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
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