From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 04:17:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA26567 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA26557 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA05731; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:17:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:17:44 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Dr=E1pal_=A9imon_=28O=DA_Praha_3=29?= cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA26563 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am MS-DOS user who wants to start with learning some unix platform. > I've got 486 and experience with MS-Windows(3.x,95,98,NT) > > Most extended unix system in my country is Linux. Would you recommend > FreeBSD rather then Linux? This question is a little bit fussy. You won't expect to get a recommendation for Linux in a FreeBSD mailing list I think. If you're interested in learning UNIX, FreeBSD is a good choice. Berkeley UNIX (BSD) has had a very strong influence on UNIX for lot of years. So, if you make experiences with FreeBSD you have a good chance to feel comfortable with Compaq/Digital UNIX, SunOS and others. Linux, of course, has also been influenced by BSD, and it is convincing UNIX clone. Nevertheless, Linux is Linux. Its roots are different from those of the rest of the UNIX world. You may be surprised not to read about technical stuff here. There are differences between FreeBSD and Linux that may strongly suggest a choice under special circumstances but from an overall point of view both systems do a good job. One thing is sure: If you decide for FreeBSD this decision won't be wrong. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message