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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.co.intel.com!chnews!itnews.sc.intel.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!dem on!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux versus FreeBSD Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:01:35 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4qqg7f$dt@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960617205112.16156C-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] David Zakai (zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu) wrote: : I have experience with only MS-DOS, Win 3.x and Netware in the PC : environment. : I hope to begin using a UNIX-type OS and am looking for something : inexpensive. Are there more versions than Linux and FreeBSD that : would occupy this niche? NetBSD, Linux & FreeBSD are the mainstream "free" OS's. : Would some FreeBSD users offer reasons why you have chosen this : OS over Linux? Luck. I was told about 386BSD-0.1 & I loaded it. I was told about linux shortly afterwards, and tried to load it. I failed - because lilo (the linux boot program) has hardcoded stuff about it's physical location embeded in it. 386BSD's boot blocks did not. I was trying to copy each os from one machine to another. : From my brief perusal of the Walnut Creek site <http://www.cdrom.com> : it appears that both FreeBSD and Linux support laptop computers, : PC Card, SCSI peripherals (NEC MultiSpin 3Xp CD-ROM drive, : Iomega JAZ drive), which are important to me. : I am also interested in the kind of support that a novice can get, : availability of books in the popular press, etc. Linux has far more published titles. It also seems to be better known that FreeBSD (in terms of people saying "I've heard of linux"). : I have seen a lot about Linux, but not as much about FreeBSD. I've never seen a book with "FreeBSD" on the cover, I've seen plenty of linux books. However, I will stick with FreeBSD for similar reasons to J"org (another followup to the same article on this thread). It's more controlled and has an overall design where linux does not. Linux however supports more hardware - from what I have read. Maybe, when I end up with enough hardware go make a third computer, I'll put linux on that. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....