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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!news-server.ncren.net!concert!ecsgate!usenet From: karpens@sauron.ncssm.edu (Simon Karpen) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu's message of 14 Nov 1995 17:33:07 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sauron.ncssm.edu Message-ID: <9bwx91gt8n.fsf@sauron.ncssm.edu> Lines: 58 Sender: karpens@sauron.ncssm.edu Organization: North Carolina School of Science and Math X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.12 References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48ajsj$f5p@galaxy.ucr.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 02:59:04 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27664 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9114 comp.unix.advocacy:11138 comp.unix.misc:19567 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8861 In article <48ajsj$f5p@galaxy.ucr.edu> js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes: From: js@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Date: 14 Nov 1995 17:33:07 GMT Organization: University Of California Xref: ecsgate comp.os.linux.advocacy:35880 comp.unix.advocacy:13540 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10904 comp.unix.misc:22464 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:10052 Path: ecsgate!concert!gatech2!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!dostoevsky.ucr.edu!js Lines: 34 References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>, Jack Hou <hou@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> wrote: >Hello, > >I am choosing between Linux and FreeBSD for my home PC. Can anyone please >tell me the difference between the two? Which one is more stable? >Which one is easier to install and maintain? How many applications >can each operating system run? Is there something that Linux can do >and FreeBSD can't do or vice versa? Any answer is greately >appreciated. Thanks in advance! They are both bitchen. FreeBSD is more well developed, has more things working smoothly. Linux has attracted more commercial interest. Agreed... I use Linux and have not had any crashes, but from what I understand the part about FreeBSD is especially true with lots of network traffic FreeBSD is more secure. Linux is a bit easier to learn on. Slackware is not secure, but other distributions can be brought up to c2. FreeBSD is more stable. Linux has more games. Linux definitely has more games, although I despise svgalib. BSD supposably, again, is much more stable on a network. FreeBSD is based on 4.4 BSD Linux appears to be based on SVR3 with a lot of BSD features. Linux has a code base that was started from scratch. It took some ideas from both BSD and SVR4 (and some BSD code, particularly network related) but definitely contains no AT&T code. Running bash & fvwm, it gets really hard to tell them apart sometimes. Probably true... however, Linux is much better supported (or so it seems) with some of the GNU packages. I don't think you can lose, whichever one you choose. Agreed, especially compared to that crap called Windows 95 -- Simon Karpen visit my homepage at karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu http://www.ncssm.edu/~karpens root@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu sysadmin for NCSSM's workstation network karpens@opus.ncssm.edu