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#! rnews 1756 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: To Convert or NOT to Convert????? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:13:25 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32536795.6FD80991@best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsampley.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) I am a rookie to the Unix/clone OS environment. I recently purchased and installed a copy of Slackware 3.0 cdrom w/Linux 1.2.13 on my machine which is also running/using Winbloze95. I'm currently in that stage of life where I'm starting to really dislike that little company up in the State of Washington with that greedy little nerd as a CEO. I would really like to remove his co's OS from my machine as soon as possible (and forever). On my most recent trip to the local computer store I discovered a copy of FreeBSD 2.1.5 (the August'96 Walnut Creek cdrom release) on the software shelf. After posting a few questions on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup, some people recommended that I drop the Slackware release. Can someone convince me if I should switch from Linux to FreeBSD. Are there any major advantages to switching? Are there any major disadvantages to converting? Will Netscape for Linux also work on FreeBSD or will I need to ftp another copy from Netscape? Please email responses. Thanks in advance for any comments Burton