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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13257 comp.os.linux.help:54827 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Suggestions on whole PC unix system Message-ID: <hastyCwCx7F.H4o@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <199409171222305695.wbuttles@gopher.champlain.edu> <CwAE15.6nB@nntpa.cb.att.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 03:18:51 GMT Lines: 44 In article <CwAE15.6nB@nntpa.cb.att.com> wjjr@wsqnmf06.sqwest.att.com (john rushford 294-6268) writes: >In article <199409171222305695.wbuttles@gopher.champlain.edu>, >Wayne Buttles <wbuttles@gopher.champlain.edu> wrote: >>We have not decided on BSD or Linux. I am hoping people out there will >>also have suggestions on this as well--not flames about the other system >>(or me :) but rational reasons why one would be beter than the other. >> > >If you can find a copy, read the September 1994 issue of "Open Computing", >formerly "UnixWorld". They compare Linux and BSD 4.4 from BSDI. They >liked both systems but summed up with: > > "While Linux has a large amount of popular support, BSDI has a more > centralized support system. For managers working on providing Unix > features like Internet services for their companies, either system > provides a good solution. BSDI, however, takes the lead in having > a comfort level associated with an established company." > First off, I don't read Open Computing, every time that I do so I always regret it. On the issue of support, there are plenty of people on the Net who support FreeBSD, NetBSD, or linux, specially if you are willing to pay them;however, by enlarge the support is volunteered. As for FreeBSD, NetBSD or linux , try them all, is no big deal and in the end it may prove to be more valuable than the "technical" opinions from any of the groups. If it matters, freebsd.cdrom.com is a P90 system connected to the internet via a T1 link. Happily typing all of this from my P66 running Freebsd via slip :) Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com