Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 16:07:24 -0700 From: Don Wilde <don@PartsNow.com> To: Chaizhi Zhu <czhu@bu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd or linux? Message-ID: <33B98DAC.62A0@PartsNow.com> References: <33B985DD.3211@bu.edu>
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FreeBSD is more purely a Berkeley-style UNIX, and Linux is more mix-and-match. Thus, any book describing BSD UNIX is directly applicable to FreeBSD. FreeBSD also has a more controlled upgrade path, and more effort is spent (thank you, guys!) on closing security holes that affect commercial users like myself who actually stake our businesses on it. Another plus of FreeBSD is that it (in 2.2.x and up), is also very good at emulating Linux and BSDi, soi you can compile and run a wide variety of different programs. On the Linux plus-side is the tremendous popular charismatic following that it has. People always root for the single guy in the garage to beat out all comers. There are more books written specifically for Linux users than there are for FreeBSD (and probably ALL Other *NIX's combined!). There are also several commercially-supported distributions of Linux out there (Caldera and Red Hat, to name 2). I am totally satisfied with the robustness and the support that I have gotten from FreeBSD and the FreeBSD community. I have examined Linux as well, and although I think it functions almost as well, almost just doesn't cut it when you have to depend on it. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo
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