Thanks, guys, for the information. This is really helpful. Giorgos, just apologizing that I used the word "level-headed". In hindsight "more informative" would have been more appropriate.
I'm currently using PC-BSD - and the journey so far has been tremendous. Happy to be part of the BSD world ;-) On Nov 10, 2007 5:10 PM, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: > > > > > I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is > > > a newbie supposed to know the differenced and how can I test this if I > > > don't have a spare machine? > > > > > > My question was more out of interest. This mailing list is called > > > FreeBSD-Questions, so why can't I asked a reasonable question and > > > expect a reasonable reply...? > > > > Because, like the software creation, the responses on the questions > > list are done by volunteers. You happened to get one who seemed > > to need to respond, but didn't have any information to respond with. > > Didn't notice who had made that response. It was by someone who would > really know, but was still unfortunately short on information. > > ////jerry > > > > > > > You will probably also get some more useful responses. (Sorry, I > > don't know much about nano, tiny or pico BSD except that those words > > tend to be used to imply very small) > > > > Of course, you could try to experiment. You could try dual-booting > > the machine you have and put those on the other part. > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 10, 2007 9:40 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 2007-11-09 17:01, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between > > > > > nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. > > > > > > > > > > They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image > > > > > that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? > > > > > > > > What don't you experiment with them, and see? :) > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
