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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:47:24 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Comparison
Message-ID:  <E0yCkuq-0000Ch-00@ns.cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310224706.11701W-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Mar 10, 98 10:47:30 pm"

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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Alan B. Stone wrote:
> 
> > I've used Linux for some time, but there are several things that I don't
> > care for.  A friend of mine told me about FreeBSD and I would like to

> http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd/bsdvlin.htm

Hmm, interesting page.  Here's my not-at-all-technical summarised answer to
this eternal question:

  FreeBSD is BSD Unix that happens to run on a PC.
  Linux is a PC OS that happens to be (sort of) POSIXish.


-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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