What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Andy
Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would appear from both sites that BSD is a marvellous operating system, very secure, efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. Both are free and maintained by really skilled technical people, etc, but what is the difference between

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Lucas Holt
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Andy wrote: Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would appear from both sites that BSD is a marvellous operating system, very secure, efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. Both are free and maintained by really

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Andy, Starting World War III, are you? ;-) Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would appear from both sites that BSD is a marvellous operating system, very secure, efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. microsoft.com would like you to believe they make a

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andy wrote: Apologies if I should have found the answer already, but it would appear from both sites that BSD is a marvellous operating system, very secure, efficient, etc, based on Berkeley Unix, etc. Both are free and maintained by really skilled technical people,

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Lucas Holt
Darwin most certainly does run on x86 (Darwin supports both x86 and PPC). OS X does not, OS X is Darwin+Quartz+Cocoa+Carbon. I know it runs.. but there is no driver support. It supports like 1 intel ide controller chipset, etc. Basically its not that usable as a workstation or server

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread paul beard
Lucas Holt wrote: Darwin (Apple's distro) isn't done yet for x86 platforms. Mac OS X runs the darwin system. Actually, it is running on x86 hardware and has for some time. http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/ -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:07:39PM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: Roughly, FreeBSD's mailing lists are friendlier than OpenBSD's, unless (and this can't be stressed enough methinks) you do your homework. So That's correct. There's nothing I hate worse than a FBSD geek who has done all the assigned

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread Lucas Holt
There are actually drivers for darwin now.. my mistake. http://www.opendarwin.org/hardware/ Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human