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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux??? Date: 30 Jan 1994 23:47:40 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com>, Brian T. Hovey <bhovey@crl.com> wrote: >Are there any major differences between Linux and FreeBSD? What are the >advantages of one over the other? the standard spiel is that linux is more of a sysv system, and *bsd [freebsd and netbsd] are 4.3 net/2 derived systems. in terms of technical merit, i don't think that either is really 'better' than the other. however, linux has 100,000,000,000,000 people using it, whereas the *bsd os's tend have a bit less. therefore, if you're a high maintenance requireing person [ie, you get stuck more than somebody who's been doing this a long time], it's probably a little easier to deal with, since they have about 100,000 texinfo and other documents that describe various things about the os. [highly sensitive poeple might have a hard time noting the egregious exaggerations]. i personally use 386bsd dervied os's on my machine, but am more and more frequently recommending linux for new people. for experienced people who have used and loved things like sunos, bsd-du-jour is a gas. marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--