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#! rnews 2010 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!news.nic.utwente.nl!news From: Jeffrey Barneveld <jeffrey> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs .... Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:28:11 GMT Organization: University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Lines: 32 Message-ID: <41fkur$srh@driene.student.utwente.nl> References: <41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: wit395109.student.utwente.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: infolab1@kub.nl X-URL: news:41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl infolab1@kub.nl (Arnout Boer) wrote: >Hi there, > >This article seems a little bit inapropiate but I think it's >in the right group. > >I'm a Linux user for almost a year but still some people say >Take a look at FreeBSD! So I still wonder about it! >I don't have enough diskspace for both so: >- can i use Wordpercet 6 for X (SCO) also with FreeBSD??? >- are there any good LaTeX distributions for FreeBSD or do I > have to rebuild from source?? >- can I install from diskettes?? >- arether true advantages for FreeBSD on a single user system!?? > >Greetz, > >Arnout > X-Windows on FreeBSD is not different from the version on Linux, so using LaTeX is not a problem. The main advantage of FreeBSD is that it uses a Software Upgrade Protocol to update the software installed. Installing is much easier, because there is a package-manager which gives an overview of the installed packages. Installing AND deleting a package is no problem. (With Linux you have to uninstall packages by yourself) At the moment I don't know if FreeBSD is available for Floppydisks. I've seen distributions on CD-ROM and of course on the Internet. I use a fast internet accespoint (10 MBit) for installation. So far I've had no trouble installing & using FreeBSD.