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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!newsserver.cilea.it!sirio.cineca.it!maya.dei.unipd.it!usenet From: Enoch Peserico <enoch@dei.unipd.it> Newsgroups: comp.unix.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 03:11:48 -0800 Organization: Universita' di Padova Lines: 18 Message-ID: <328709F4.199E@dei.unipd.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp9.dei.unipd.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) CC: enoch@dei.unipd.it Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.advocacy:29329 comp.os.linux.advocacy:72155 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30866 Hello! I'm sorry if I bring up a common subject but I'm in no way an expert Linux or FreeBSD user (and know little of Unix in general). In fact I want to install one of them (and become an expert user of it ;) ) while remaining -almost- blissfully ignorant of the other. The platforms are two 486 DX 66 VesaLB, one with 8 and the other 16 megs of ram, the first with a 420 meg hard disk, the second with a 720 one, + modems, printers and 1 HP scanner (and soon, I hope, some local network connecting them). Which should I choose and why? I'd like to here comments both in favour and against each of the two OSes. Thanks Enoch Peserico enoch@dei.unipd.it Universita' di Padova, Italy