[olug] SuSE or RHEL or Centos or Fedora or Xandros

IrishMASMS at olug.org IrishMASMS at olug.org
Thu Sep 9 17:25:52 UTC 2004


We also welcome the fellow OS X users as well....


Irish


> Although we are happy to have all *BSD users as
> participants in OLUG, please remember that
> OpenBSD/FreeBSD and all other flavors of BSD are not
> Linux; there are many differences; architecture,
> licensing, file placements, etct.
>
> Since my *BSD days are far behind, this may no longer
> apply. The most important difference is the TCP/IP
> stack.  With Linux, there is a buffer between the
> kernel and the TCP/IP stack, but with BSD there is no
> bufffer, the network and TCP/IP stack are more tightly
> integrated with the kernel, adding stability and
> reliablity to network services.
>
> -=Sean Edwards=-
> cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
>
>
> --- Ben Dinger <ben at mac-geek.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:40:41AM -0500, Jeff
>> Hinrichs wrote:
>> > But obviously incomplete since BSD wasn't on the
>> list.  :)
>> >
>>
>> Yeah, no kidding.  I'd like to see all you Debian
>> goons even step up to OpenBSD.  ;)
>>
>> --
>> Ben Dinger
>> ben at mac-geek.com
>> "The Pope?  How many divisions has he got?" --Josef
>> Stalin
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