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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!io.org!nobody From: cbbrown@io.org (Christopher B. Browne) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD... Date: 14 Dec 1995 16:47:52 -0500 Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4aq628$psa@ionews.io.org> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4ao0f8$1qc@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4aodm3$gcj@exit.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nudge.io.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:6374 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30304 comp.os.linux.misc:75589 comp.os.linux.setup:32282 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10439 In article <4aodm3$gcj@exit.com>, Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote: >In article <4ao0f8$1qc@pell.pell.chi.il.us>, Orc <orc@pell.chi.il.us> wrote: >> Neither. >> >> Flip a coin about which one you want to run, then run it. If >>you don't like it, you can always switch to the other, and if you're >>particularly ambitious you can go and correct the things you don't >>like about the one you choose. > >Hah. You're just jealous. FreeBSD 2.1 is the One True Operating System, >and your recent hardware problems would never have happened had you been >running it. I like what I've seen of FreeBSD; the installation scheme is fairly good. If it took the best of the ideas from the various Linux package tools, it could possibly "win" some time down the road. The *feel* of FreeBSD is a little more "professional;" I'm not sure I can readily explain that. I'm not sure it's really worth anything, either. The downside to FreeBSD at this point is that a lot of the commercial efforts have been going into Linux. If I call the Wingz folks, they know about Linux. Likewise for Angoss. Likewise for quite a variety of commercial providers that have been springing up. Commercial products seem less available for FreeBSD, which is somewhat unfortunate. I somehow think that Linux is probably more suitable for "new users;" unfortunately that is most obviously expressed by the fact that there are more "crappy new user books" on the bookshelves at bookstores. -- Christopher Browne - Email:<cbbrown@io.org>, WWW:<http://www.io.org/~cbbrown/> SAP Basis Consultant/Systems Engineer -------- Certified SAP ABAP/4 Consultant PGP key available - check my .plan, Web Page Share and Enjoy