Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:02:42 -0500 From: "Havener, Kevin" <Kevin.Havener@afccc.af.mil> To: Harry Newton <harry_newton@telinco.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Relative Merits of FreeBSD Message-ID: <E55BC5FC7AA9D211A00F00104B07D7DB48FEC9@thor.afccc.af.mil>
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I run 'em both. Have the same philosophy as you. Can't say that there's much difference. I only track the stable releases of each, and Debian is getting a little long in the tooth right now, but it works fine. I think Debian is a little easier to set up, configure and upgrade, but with your background, you won't even notice that. Specifically, the answers to your questions, IMHO. from a similar level of user are: There isn't anything you can do in FreeBSD that you can't do in Debian. No difference in stability that I've noticed or speed, but I don't run any fancy window managers--I use a 486. If you've been running Debian for awhile, you might want to run FreeBSD in parallel for awhile at least. Believe it or not, you've become adjusted to the Debian way, and you'll want some of the configuration items from your Debian setup. I intend to keep running them side by side for the forseeable future. I'll let you know if one begins to outperform the other for this level of use :-). Kevin > o Is there anything I can do in Linux that I can't do in BSD ( & > vice-versa ) ? > > o FreeBSD is often claimed to be more stable and quicker than Linux > --- how true is this is practice ? > > o Is there any advice that you give to someone who is going to make such > a change ? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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