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Old January 10th, 2004, 12:19 AM
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What is BSD
I have used windows up till winme and a few different distros of linux. Anyway I was thinking of trying *BSD. I know nothing about *BSD. WHAT is it? Is it anything like linux? Which *BSD would be best for a knew user with a little linux experience?
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Linux is for those who choose not to use windows
windows is for those who don't know they have a choice
To "break" a Linux Box, you will have to work at it..
To break a windows box, you just have to work on it..

windows, where do you want to crash today??
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It is an OS like Windows and Linux, and is similar to Linux in many ways, has similar commandline operations, also uses the X Server, can run KDE or GNOME, is of a more mature code base, and often times had performance gains over Linux.
The main types are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin, the base of Mac OS X
Look at this thread for more info: http://forums.devshed.com/t73907/s3...4279cdc566.html
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Thank you .
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BSD is not like windows.. not in the slightest, though via an X server running on BSD, you can use desktop environments similiar to Windows.

BSD does have many similarities with Linux, as they are both (at their heart) Unix.

perhaps I misread mttatkns.. I think now that what yuo mean was "Windows, BSD, and Linux are all operating systems."
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What is the difference between between *BSD and Linux? What compilers come with *BSD?
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perhaps I misread mttatkns.. I think now that what yuo mean was "Windows, BSD, and Linux are all operating systems."
yes, that was what I was saying...
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What is the difference between between *BSD and Linux? What compilers come with *BSD?
Differences are minimal, considering that they both have a very different history for the last few decades. Device names are different, the kernel is different, the code base is more mature, the software is released under a different liscense, and more software is ports of applications as opposed to the applications themselves (although you probably won't see any loss in performance as compared to running the app in Linux). Depending upon your hardware, you may also find significant performance gains (on my P3@733, RedHat Linux takes ~60 seconds to boot and 30-50 seconds to start the GUI, while FreeBSD takes 20-25 seconds to boot the same services, and 15-20 to start the GUI).
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If I am proficient with win98 and MandrakeLinux, which BSD would you suggest?
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You should be able to get to work quickly with FreeBSD, NetBSD, OR OpenBSD. You'll find them all very similar to Linux (much more similar than Windows). My recommendation for the x86 platform would be FreeBSD, because of the ports collection.
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When you say x86 are you saying (intel 486+)?
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x86 = i386, i486, i586, (i686?)
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So FreeBDS will run on a 386 system??
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Probably, although I cannot say for sure as I have not tried myself...
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It will run on a 386, but I don't think the current installer will. You can either compile a custom kernel to run the installer from, install the system on something newer with 386 support and drop the hdd in the old system, or more likely, just spend $50 and get an old socket 7 system and use it instead. If you're careful, you can run the system on 4M of ram, but I think the installer requires 8.
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I've just downloaded and created the three FreeBSD 4.9 disks(disk 1,disk 2,MIni). I have a pentium 100 with 32 MD memory and 3 GB hd. I want to use that as a test machine. What all can I do on that system with FreeBSD? Will that machine work for FreeBSD and will I be able to install a GUI or will I be stuck with only the command line?
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