Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:20:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: questions.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980730150814.730A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Hi all, Yesterday a notice appeared on Freshmeat about an OS chart. The goal of said chart was to compare and contrast different OS's. I went and looked and it had Linux, SCO and NT. I wrote the author and asked if he would like to add FreeBSD to the chart as a representative of the *BSD's. He replied "that'd be great" so now I want to check my data before I send it to him to make sure there are no errors. The chart itself can be found at: http://www.xunil.com/xunil/oschart.html Below is the data I've created for the FreeBSD portion of the chart. I've tried to fill in most of the data (by looking through the handbook/mail list archive etc) but there are a few things I couldn't find or new nothing about. If you can spot any errors or fill in any blanks I'd appreciate it, then I'll send it back to him and it will get added to the chart! Blanks/uncertain portions indicated w/a # in the first column in the line. Note some of the questions are for the author of the chart. Thanks a lot! Brett ----------------------FreeBSD portion of the chart--------------------- Release 2.2.7 Based on BSD-4.4 Date of release July 28, 1998 Cost ------ Cost $39.95 (for any number of users) Software Development kit included Supported standards ------------------- Unix branding none Security none #Other ?? UFS ?? (they have the Linux File system listed) System Limits ------------- Minimum CPU 80386 # Min/Max RAM 5 MB/ ?? at least 1 GB ?? Minimum disk 60 MB # Maximum supported CPU's 1 (what's the max in current???) Available Clustering none Hardware support ---------------- ISA/PCI/EISA yes # IDE modes supported PIO 1-4 ? Microchannel no ISA "Plug-n-play" yes PC cards (PCMIA) limited I20 no Tape/CDROM jukeboxes yes Hot swap cards no Sound cards many Scanners some Video capture limited Filesystems ------------ Standard type UFS # Journaling no ? # Maximum file/partition size 2 GB/512 GB (in current - ref Dyson email in mail list archive - stable # ?) Fast check/repair no Disk mirroring yes Per-user disk quotas yes Multi-disk filesystem yes # Available RAID levels 0,1, others? Mount DOS/CDROM filesystem yes/yes Support RockRidge/Joliet CDROM yes/yes # Backup software included BRU ?? # Maximum filesystem swap area ? Hot swap disk support no Installation ------------ Native package format pkg_add (in tgz) Also reads none # Can query/validate packages yes? (I'm not sure what he means here) # Floppyless install if using no (is this right?) bootable CDROM # Floppies required (min/max) 1/( for everything? - TONS - I think I saw Greg Lehey say this was around 1400 w/ the ports collection) Install from remote TCP server yes Install from remote IPX server no # Express choices available ? not sure what this means ? Development ----------- C Compiler included in base (gcc) Generates FreeBSD a.out (ELF in 3.0) Standard debugging tools gdb,xxgdb # Integrated development envir. ? Java Development Kit yes # Available Java tools in house or is this 3rd party? POSIX-compliant shell bash available (csh is not POSIX right?) Perl yes Other Scripting languages Python, Scheme, Tcl GUI ---- X Server supplied XFree86 Std. GUI environment in development (X-desktop contest) Optional environments KDE, AfterStep, WindowMaker, Blackbox, FVWM*, icewm, etc Standard toolkit (depends on above) Optional X toolkits Gtk, Tk, Qt, Motif, Lesstif Connectivity ------------ NFS server/client yes/yes NIS server/client yes/yes NetWare server/client yes/yes (netcon) CIFS (SMB) server/client yes/yes (Samba) Bootp/DHCP yes/yes Macintosh networking yes Network services ---------------- Standard web server Apache Optional web server Netscape (BSDi under emulation) Telnet server/client yes/yes Network Address Translation yes Firewall services yes Base SMTP server sendmail Optional SMTP server qmail POP/IMAP server yes Mailing list management yes (majordomo) # Windows Internet Name Server ? Internet Domain Name Server yes PPP client/server yes/yes # DCE yes? Emulation --------- # Windows 3.1 no? Windows95/98/NT limited (Wine) DOS yes (pcemu in 2.2.7, rundos in 3.0) SCO UnixWare/OpenServer/Xenix yes Linux ELF yes Other BSDi,NetBSD System administration --------------------- GUI-Based no Character-Based yes Web-Based no Enterprise Network Admin optional (scotty) # Printed manuals ? do they mean a paper manual or man pages To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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