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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux??? Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <CKMF6z.15nq@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 23:42:35 GMT References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 17 In article <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: >In article <2igljt$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. I think the good features of all the free unix-like OS make it to the other free unix-like OSes quickly because of the good cooperation. Unless you have a special need, a good decision maker feature would be the PEOPLE supporting a particular OS. And there is a hats-off good collection in each of the major groups. --mark.