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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pacbell.com!ico.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Nov 1995 19:39:43 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 49 Message-ID: <47oclv$572@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <47e58g$d7r@over.mhv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) X-URL: news:47e58g$d7r@over.mhv.net Just try FreeBSD if you have the time and disk space. In my opinion, thats the highest virtue of all the free OSes you can try them. Is not like going out to a store buying a software package and then you get into hazzles if you want to return the software package and the dealer does not want to take it back. In fact, that would be and interesting feature to add to freebsd once you install it you can 't get rid of it even you format the disk :) Yes, it requires time and effort to install any of the free OSes and that time is money , etc... One factor that some forget is the ease of upgrading the system and how well you can communicate with the free OS community. For instance, in FreeBSD we use sup to upgrade the system not just the kernel and to rebuild the system we "make world" . It makes like a whole lot easier than to catch a patch here and there and whatever hazzle one has to go thru if you don't have have the equivalent of "make world". On the communication side, we have freebsd mailing lists to discuss various aspects as well as mail archivals with a simple to use web interface so you can search on different key words with ease. Enjoy, Amancio Yves-Chandler Eynard <yves@mnhv.net> wrote: >I am currently running linux (as I have for about 3 or 4 years) and it has >been suggested I would be better off with FreeBSD. > >So, I am looking for a bit of advice, such as: > >Is it really worth making the switch? >What are the advantages/disadvantages of switch? >How large is the learning curve, and more importantly, which is system is >better to know? > > >TIA > >Yves. > -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD