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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!sonybc!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!natasha.rmi.net!usenet From: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@w3page.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:57:25 -0700 Organization: What, me organized? Lines: 44 Message-ID: <32E84F44.75616F4D@w3page.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <5c9444$9vq@lace.colorado.edu> <5c98sl$gbn@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp03.h2net.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153945 comp.os.linux.networking:65990 comp.os.linux.setup:93651 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5711 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2001 A bunch of people wrote: Linux has this, BSD has that... the gourd, the shoe, thoe gourd , the shoe... :-P I have seen these discussions quickly turn into holy wars. But they are both just operating systems, not religions. I would consider myself to be non biased with these O/S's. I use BOTH, but for different applications. I beleive in using the right tools for the job, rather than making a screwdriver into a prybar... Here is what I do with them, YMMV of course. Linux: Personal workstation. No other O/S gives _me_ what I want for this. I run WordPerfect, NeXs, dosemu for my credit card processing software, and all the normal Utilities of course. Single user ( me ) most of the time. Very fast and LOTS of documentation and books available. Lots of help and users available. Certainly a much larger user base to draw help from. (That does not mean it is "better" though, any more than Windows is better than Linux.) FreeBSD: My Web Internet servers. The Security, the flexability, the speed, all beat linux. Sorry. Wish it were not true, as I really like Linux. Documentation and Book. A reasonable amount of documentation, and one book that I know of... But, most BSD flavor Unix's are so similar that the admin part is easy enough to figure out for the most part. Somewhat less help available online, but plenty to get you by. Performance under a heavy load is great.... no, it's better than that. Just a random thought. Last time I checked, CDROM.COM used FreeBSD for their FTP server. One of the worlds busiest sites.... If they can afford multiple t-3's for their 100 mbps connection, I doubt that the piddling cost of even the most expensive commercial OS is a factor. In other words, they can AFFORD anything they want, they choose FreeBSD. They sell both FreeBSD and Linux. So, which is better? Simple. You want to screw something into the wall, or pry something off? So, what ya want to DO is the biggest factor.