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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!rubin.noc.dfn.de!schweikh From: schweikh@rubin.noc.dfn.de (Jens Schweikhardt) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:13:06 GMT Organization: Regional Network of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, FRG Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5gjg12$r6d$1@news.belwue.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rubin.noc.dfn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19139 comp.os.linux.misc:164840 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37181 In article <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> wgd@adelaide.on.net (Alex) writes: >I am interested in downloading a free Unix operating system such as >Linux or FreeBSD. I have Windows 95 installed as the main OS on a >Pentium and wanted to put a Unix OS on a seperate partition. What are >the pros and cons of these two operating systems and/or any other free >Unix ones? This has been discussed to death in this forum. What it boilds down to, IMHO: 1) Try both (I did, Linux from 0.99pl14 to 1.2.x, FreeBSD from 2.1.0 to 2.1.7 -- staying with FreeBSD) 2) If you're new to UNIX, see what OSs your friends have, so you can ask them. Alternatively: 3) Check out which newsgroup is less noise laden. The differences aren't big. But details vary. For example compare how to report bugs. FreeBSD's send-pr is a breeze and I always got a response and in the next release it was fixed. Didn't have such luck with Linux. Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/People/schweikhardt/home.html SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)