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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: To Convert or NOT to Convert????? Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:19:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <536fs9$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32536795.6FD80991@best.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <32536795.6FD80991@best.com> To: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> wrote: > Can someone convince me if I should switch from Linux to FreeBSD. Are No. ;-) > there any major advantages to switching? Are there any major > disadvantages to converting? This mainly depends on your needs. However, my impression in particular about the Slackware release of Linux wasn't the best either. OTOH, your provider (best.com) is IMHO one of the larger users of FreeBSD... > Will Netscape for Linux also work on FreeBSD or will I need to ftp > another copy from Netscape? I'm not sure whether it will work. Quite a bunch of Linux stuff does work, but i never pounded it much myself. Most people seem to use the BSD/OS version on FreeBSD. > Please email responses. [Cc sent.] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)