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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Solaris , *BSD Post 41977 by Perderabo on Monday 20th of October 2003 01:13:18 PM
Old 10-20-2003
To a system administrator, there are differences. To most users the differences are minor but apparent. And I wouldn't use the regular expression *BSD quite so freely. Our local FreeBSD expert strongly dislikes OpenBSD but begrudgingly admits that it is more secure. He says NetBSD is pathetic.

I am mainly a HP-UX/Solaris guy. I find that I am much more "at home" on any Linux, than on any BSD.
 

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UIPAQ(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  UIPAQ(4)

NAME
uipaq -- USB support for iPAQ units SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device uipaq device ucom Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): uipaq_load="YES" HARDWARE
The uipaq driver supports the following adapters: ASUS P535 PDA Casio BE300 PDA Compaq IPaq PocketPC HP Jornada 568 HP iPAQ 22xx/Jornada 548 HTC PPC6700 Modem HTC Smart Phone HTC Winmobile Sharp W-ZERO3 ES Spart Phone Most Windows CE based phones DESCRIPTION
The uipaq driver provides support for the USB serial emulation provided by the iPAQ devices. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). SEE ALSO
tty(4), ucom(4), uhub(4), usb(4) HISTORY
The FreeBSD support was imported from NetBSD for FreeBSD 7.0. NetBSD added support in NetBSD 4.0 and it was imported from OpenBSD 3.8. BSD
August 24, 2008 BSD
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