nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

[Roland Smith]

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 

Both nanobsd and picobsd have manual pages. Try 'man nanobsd' and 'man
picobsd'. 

Picobsd has been superseded by nanobsd, whose primary is building system
images for embadded systems. This is definitely not a newbie subject.

> and how can I test this if I don't have a spare machine?

Use a virtual machine, like Qemu or vmware.
 
> 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...?

You're supposed to look for answers yourself first. A quick googling of
tinybsd, nanobsd and picobsd would have given you these links:

http://www.tinybsd.org/tinybsd
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/howto.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoBSD

Roland
-- 
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated]
pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914  B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20071110/a3a197c6/attachment.pgp