From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 06:52:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18664 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 06:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18655 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 06:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (mike.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA26889 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:51:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35B74159.DB6F02A6@graphnet.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:57:45 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "q's" Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------1ECAF3C4B649501F257900AF" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1ECAF3C4B649501F257900AF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FreeBSD vs. Linux I would recommend FreeBSD (I have used both, and am now completely switched to FBSD). The differences are thus: ****OBJECTIVE***** 1. FreeBSD is a direct derivative of BSD Unix. -- Linux is an independent _Unix-like_ OS 2. FreeBSD, while it does supply you with source code, is generally developed by one team. If there are more distributions, they're all the same. -- Linux's distributions vary, anyone can add to the kernel. ****SUBJECTIVE***** 3. However, at the moment, Linux is more popular and there is more software for it, HOWEVER FreeBSD has over 1500 ports and growing. 4. FreeBSD is much friendlier to a new user. 5. This list. This list is amazing -- I have only started on FreeBSD about a month ago and everyone has been a _tremendous_ help. 6. I have Apache, RADIUS and INN running on a FreeBSD machine and it handles it beautifully (the same load that used to regularly crash a Solaris-run Sparc20!) -- _________________________________________ | Roman Katsnelson | | UNIX Network Engineer | _ | Graphnet, Inc. | _ / )|_________________________________________|( \ / / | "Laws are like sausages. You have | \ \ _( (_ | more respect for them if you haven't | _) )_ (((\ \>|_/-)seen how they're made." -Bismarck(-\_| Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:56:19 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jan.brolund@sida.se Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FreeBSD vs. Linux I would recommend FreeBSD (I have used both, and am now completely switched to FBSD). The differences are thus: ****OBJECTIVE***** 1. FreeBSD is a direct derivative of BSD Unix. -- Linux is an independent _Unix-like_ OS 2. FreeBSD, while it does supply you with source code, is generally developed by one team. If there are more distributions, they're all the same. -- Linux's distributions vary, anyone can add to the kernel. ****SUBJECTIVE***** 3. However, at the moment, Linux is more popular and there is more software for it, HOWEVER FreeBSD has over 1500 ports and growing. 4. FreeBSD is much friendlier to a new user. 5. This list. This list is amazing -- I have only started on FreeBSD about a month ago and everyone has been a _tremendous_ help. 6. I have Apache, RADIUS and INN running on a FreeBSD machine and it handles it beautifully (the same load that used to regularly crash a Solaris-run Sparc20!) -- _________________________________________ | Roman Katsnelson | | UNIX Network Engineer | _ | Graphnet, Inc. | _ / )|_________________________________________|( \ / / | "Laws are like sausages. You have | \ \ _( (_ | more respect for them if you haven't | _) )_ (((\ \>|_/-)seen how they're made." -Bismarck(-\_|