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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!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!testpattern.telstra.net!usenet From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD v Linux - A Different View Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:14:40 +1000 Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 33 Message-ID: <31C8D030.167EB0E7@telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pizza.telstra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) It seems a lot of energy is being placed on the "Which is best - Linux or FreeBSD" debate. Personally, I use FreeBSD. Why ? I read up on the "debate" as it stood last year and came to the following conclusions - whether right or wrong. (And I don't wish to run both.) I wanted a stable OS with a SunOS 4.1.3 flavour to make life a bit easier. Networking and i/o was seen as important and a stable, mature BSD based OS seemed a better choice. I preferred a single point of distribution and was happy to rely on the good nature of the developers to do the right thing. I/we use FreeBSD extensively (but certainly not exclusively) and have found no problems except for inelegant operation when you run out of virtual memory. They usually run faultless for months. No doubt there are many Linux users who would say the same. Personally, I would rather see FreeBSD and Linux move a bit closer until the point where executables are relatively transportable between the 2 platforms. But I guess we are in a competitive world. Wayne PS #1 Where are we at with Linux ELF and a.out stuff running on FreeBSD ? PS #2 If Bill Gates can complain that Netscape are not playing the game by avoiding the standards process re. HTML AND say it with a straight face, then I'm the governor of Arkansas (and I've never been there).