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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!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.gw.com!news.deshaw.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!not-for-mail From: lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 03:47:24 GMT Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 24 Message-ID: <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ad25-221.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19263 comp.os.linux.misc:165582 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37466 On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 22:12:40 GMT, stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) wrote: >C_MCKINNON (C_MCKINNON@colloquium.co.uk) wrote: >: The linux kernel is smaller (faster?) & more widely used. I wouldn't >: recommend that you download it - there are plenty of people selling it on > >The point is: Linux Users TALK about using Linux for something >usefull. FreeBSD just USE it for something usefull... :-)) I just wish I could get it set up to do something useful with it. Linux I had no prob installing. With fbsd, I get kernel panics for nothing during install. However, IMHO, even though it is lame, I prefer NT4. Its set up is a breeze (compared to linux and fbsd), and it's so ridiculously intuitive compared to the other two that I can actually get some work done (and faster because the software does almost everything for you). Example: war ftp. On NT and 95 (95 is crap piled on top of more crap [dos] piled on top of more crap [cm/1] IMHO) I got my ftp server set up in less than 15 min, and it's just as fast and reliable as a linux ftp server which took me about 4 months to figure out. I think that the stablest os that has easy to use software for idiots is the best os of all.