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From: mind@ripco.com (Dr. Who)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: linux or freebsd
Date: 24 Nov 1996 23:08:43 GMT
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~ (Beavischrist@beavisandbutthead.com) wrote:
: ok, im on windows 95 now, but i feel like i want to try someting new...
: for purposes of productivity and fun.if i sound ignorant about this its
: becauuse i am.i only ran unix a few times before.
: this is what i have gathered.
: both os's are unix clones.
: i can run unix stuff in both os's.
: linux seems to be more popular.
: freebsd is smaller.
: they are both free!
: sooooooooo, anyone have any ideas? tips or hints about what i should
: use?
: and does anyone know the differnces between slackware, redhat etc..
: versions of linux.
So far, (after reading the posts in response to you), I am left with only
one thing I find to be "better" about FreeBSD than linux:
Stability...
I'm currently running linux on my machine now and it's done very well... But
I'm looking towards a major upgrade here and I"m a bit torn between new LInux
or FreeBSD... I'm leaning more and more towards BSD for the simple fact that
with linux, there is a new release of some major part of the system on an
almost daily basis...
In other words, if you want a system that's tried and tested and proven
to work with some degree of stability, FreeBSD is the way to go (I'm even
leaning towards BSD more and more as I type this :).
If you like to take risks and be on the cutting (bleeding?) edge of
technology, then use Linux...
Overall, the BEST thing to do (wish I had the MONEY to do this) is to
run both... one on this computer, the other on that computer...
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