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Old 05-13-2003, 12:09 PM   #1
drewski
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Question What is the difference?

What is the difference between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD? Also, if I were to choose one to install for just student/personal use, which would be the best one to pick?
 
Old 05-13-2003, 12:29 PM   #2
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please read this.
 
Old 05-14-2003, 03:42 PM   #3
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"I would strongly advise against asking questions on any of the BSD mailing lists until you've RTFM'ed."
For sure
 
Old 05-21-2003, 11:12 AM   #4
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Open BSD you can install from files on Dos (Windows) partition or from Linux partition. FreeBSD can be installed only from Dos(Windows). NetBSD cannot be installed from both dos and Linux. Of course there are many other methods of installation for every of them.

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Old 05-21-2003, 12:31 PM   #5
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Open BSD you can install from files on Dos (Windows) partition or from Linux partition. FreeBSD can be installed only from Dos(Windows). NetBSD cannot be installed from both dos and Linux. Of course there are many other methods of installation for every of them.
NetBSD can certainly be installed from a DOS partition, I've done it myself. Otherwise, this sounds about right.

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Old 05-21-2003, 03:13 PM   #6
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I installed FreeBSD on my laptop off my USB FAT32 hard drive. I was shocked to see that it found the USB drive during the install process so I went ahead and used it. Lots faster than my laptop's CDROM!
 
  


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