From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 6: 5:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backrosh.inter.net.il (backrosh.inter.net.il [192.116.196.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6BB1559D for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 06:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dilogsys@inter.net.il) Received: from inter.net.il ([212.68.144.135]) by backrosh.inter.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16461 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 16:05:15 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <378601A0.C947E77@inter.net.il> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 16:05:20 +0200 From: Daniel Feiglin Organization: Dilog Computers Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What's the difference bewtween Linux and FreeBSD? Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4300702AF26D571699E9441E" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4300702AF26D571699E9441E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ibm862 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think the subject speaks for itself. Has any one done a "blow by blow" comparison? As a Unix/Linux "newbie" with 28 years of programming experience on a variety of platforms, I haven't been able to get any sense on this subject, beyond the suspicion that the "difference" seems to have more to do with Unix politics than Unix technical issues. I intend to use Linux/Unix as a development platform and also as a "home user system" in place of OS/2, which seems to be dying ... (I never liked MS Windows as far back as 2.11; the present offerings are not that impressive.) I have "tried" three different Linux distributions; the differences are for most part installation time cosmetics. Beyond that, the command line is the command line, X is X and so on. Why should I try FreeBSD? --------------4300702AF26D571699E9441E Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=ibm862; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Daniel Feiglin Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Daniel Feiglin n: Feiglin;Daniel org: Dilog Computers Ltd. adr: POB 36;;;Shavei Shomron, Mobile Post;;44858;ISRAEL email;internet: dilogsys@inter.net.il tel;work: 972 9 861 6204 tel;fax: 972 9 862 1052 tel;home: 972 9 832 0939 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------4300702AF26D571699E9441E-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message