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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:8331 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6730 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <CGAw8z.KAI@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 00:05:22 GMT Lines: 48 In article <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> ap713@yfn.ysu.edu writes: > > I got a few responses to my post, and some people have been asking for >them, so here they are. > > >Message #15 (24 is last): >Date: Sun Oct 31 18:32:41 1993 >From: storm@mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) > Linux has a scary kernel, bad networking code, and is generally > a pretty patchy system. NetBSD and FreeBSD are full Oh, honestly! I realize that you are biased, but if you have no first hand experience with linux (which your reaction would tend to suggest), why don't you just leave this thread alone. I will ignore the rest of Marc's post, because it is not an objective comparison and is filled with flame bait. >From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) >Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux >To: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu >Bottom line though is you need to run whatever version you feel more >comfortable with. If there are 100 FreeBSD users near you, obviously >your best bet is to use it, but if there are only Linux users around you >would be better off with Linux. A very good suggestion. My own personal answer is that it depends upon what you want. Each system has some strengths and weaknesses (the BSD variants have been better with networking, although this is changing rapidly, and linux tends to support a lot more of the inexpensive oddball boards out there). If you came out and said "My machine configuration is X, and I would like to use the machine for Y. Which would work better?", we might be able to identify specific reasons why one choice would be better than the other. Unless you have specific reasons to choose one over the other, you will probably be satisfied with either choice. The Yggdrasil cdrom is a turnkey system that is more or less ready to go. There are a few warts in some of the setup scripts, but on the whole it is pretty easy to get things set up and ready to go. -Eric -- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."