4.8 or 5.1?

[Terry Lambert]

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Jeremy Kemp wrote:
> > [/lurk]
> > I just inherited a DEC AlphaServer 1000/266 to play with, and I'm
> > curious if anyone has a recommendation of whether I should install
> > FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. Background includes some Linux/Unix, and I
> 
> Both should work without incidents. For now I recommend 4.8.
> 
> > currently run Mac OS X Server, which is based on FreeBSD (or is it
> > Open? I can't remember).
> 
> FreeBSD.

OSF Mach 3.0, NeXTStep, BSD4.4-Lite2, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.

Much of the userland code is FreeBSD-derived.

It's fun to look in the header files in /usr/include/sys, if you
have the developer CD installed.

-- Terry