PicoBSD - Anyone familiar with it?

Jimi-Spandex

Hey, I am learning unix atm, and have this distribution here, anyone familiar with it or have an opinion on it?

dahamsta

PicoBSD seems to be a tiny version of FreeBSD that will fit on one floppy. Mightn't be the best place to start?

http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html

adam

Hecate

Just out of interest, whats the difference between all the various flavours of BSD available? (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD etc..)

JustHalf

All share the same TCP/IP setup as Win2k. I heard they licensed it of Microsoft for kicks.

dahamsta

I'm not 100% sure, but I know that OpenBSD is supposed to be a very secure OS (by default, as against any other OS which can be *made* secure), and I think NetBSD is optimized - predictably enough - for the net. Dunno about FreeBSD.

It's just one of those things with open source code - different developers want to go different ways, so the code forks. I read something about the BSD OS's forking before, can't remember where. Try a search on Google for "openbsd freebsd netbsd fork" or summat like that.

adam

Zefren

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by dahamsta:
I'm not 100% sure, but I know that OpenBSD is supposed to be a very secure OS (by default, as against any other OS which can be *made* secure), and I think NetBSD is optimized - predictably enough - for the net. Dunno about FreeBSD.

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NetBSD's goal to be portable and run on as many platforms as possible. Have a look at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/ for a list of architectures that it supports.

OpenBSD is a fork of the netbsd codebase that has been severly audited for anything which may allow security breaches.

FreeBSD is an all round solution and only runs on alpha and i386 platforms, which means the developers have more time to spend optmising the code for just those platforms.

Zef

vac

Try kicking your tv, works for me..

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