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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.biu.ac.il!news.tau.ac.il!spinoza!eilara From: eilara@ccsg.tau.ac.il (Ran Eilam) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: differences between Linux and FreeBSD? Date: 23 May 1996 19:07:01 GMT Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4o2d0l$gmr@post.tau.ac.il> References: <319E7F37.542B@roma.physics.uiuc.edu> <319F91C5.41C67EA6@star-gate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: spinoza.tau.ac.il X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Amancio Hasty Jr. (hasty@star-gate.com) wrote: : Vivek Rao wrote: : > Could someone describe the principal differences between FreeBSD and : > Linux? To put it more provocatively, which one is better, and why? : > I am trying to decide which os to install on my PC, not start a : > religious war. : > Vivek Rao : Try them both and if you want to help don't ask which one is better. : Both Linux and FreeBSD are good OSes and are *free*. : If I had to decide on FreeBSD vs Linux, my choice would be on : what my friends use . It is far more important to be in touch : with a group of people who are knowledgeable about the OS than : on the merits of OS superiority. eh, why? has the Usenet stopeed working over there? Ran. -- ran eilam SMM "Software over Mind over Matter" http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/eilara eilara@132.66.56.3 CorText: the road less taken. Tel Aviv is the place to be ? *boom*