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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd
Date: 24 Apr 1995 13:08:47 +0200
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<selphj@alpha.obu.edu> wrote:
>We have been running linux for a year or so here. I was looking at different
>Unix's and was wondering if anyone could tell me why I might want to
>switch to FreeBSD.
You probably don't want to switch. If you're satisfied with Linux,
use it. ``If it ain't broken, don't fix it.'' Or: ``Never change a
running system.'' :)
> I have: httpd, named, sendmail, lynx, and dosemu
>running on Linux.
FreeBSD comes with named and sendmail in the base distribution. lynx
and httpd's are available as packages. Dosemu is not available, since
FreeBSD does not (yet) support vm86. However, pcemu is available as a
port now (on the ftp server[s] however, not yet on a CD).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)