From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 10:17: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498D537B698 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0BIGgR58820; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:16:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0av) with ESMTP id f0BIGeU58808; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:16:41 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: earth.wnm.net: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:16:40 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: "Keyes, Randall" Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" , "'feedback@linux.com'" Subject: Re: I need to learn UNIX --- Free BSD or Linux? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Keyes, Randall wrote: > I need to learn UNIX for my employer. I intend to do this at home. I have > an 18-gig hard drive that I intend to install Windows 2000 server on as the > primary OS. I would also like to dual boot with either Linux or FreeBSD to > learn UNIX. > > Questions: > 1. In reality, which OS is closer to AIX/Solaris/other System V in > administration commands? Differences in the command set are generally minor. You'll find Linux to be more System V-like. Of course I'd recommend FreeBSD for religious reasons, but you probably want Linux first. > 2. Will your OS dual-boot with W2K Server? > Question should be whether Win2K will dual boot with them. :) Both can do it. In fact, it's perfectly possible to install all three. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message