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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!dobie.loop.com!loop.com!gif From: gif@loop.com (Gifka Sovereign) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats so great about FreeBSD? Date: 10 Jun 1996 14:26:39 GMT Organization: News Fetish Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4phbav$ime@jerry.loop.net> References: <4pbtvj$hqq@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pma3_134.loop.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert L. Zehr (robz@praline.no.neosoft.com) wrote: : To be honest I can't tell much of a difference between BSD386 ver 1.1 and : FreeBSD which my ISP has switched to.What are the differences?One is free : and the other is not???Other than this what is so great about FreeBSD? To you, joeblow user on an ISP, you probably won't see any difference. As to the reason why your ISP switched operating systems, only your ISP can give you a definitive answer to that question. Why don't you ask _them_ the how's and why's of why they switched? What's so great about FreeBSD, you ask? Are you serious in your intent on having waste someone's time to list all possible reasons of why FreeBSD is great? With such a vast feature-rich and feature-capable operating system, as FreeBSD is, it'd be sheer folly to try to answer such a blanket question! Especially since we don't know the extent of which you are exposed to the operating system on your ISP's machines. If all you do is read mail, read news, and ftp stuff, then you probably won't detect any significant differences between your ISP's old operating system and FreeBSD.