From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 8:25:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EB337B7DB for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.132] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A2A9C4500B0; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:24:25 -0400 Message-ID: <390072DC.4F3FAD18@picusnet.com> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:25:16 -0400 From: "William D. Freeman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Robertson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how does freebsd compare to mandrake 7.0? References: <004f01bfaba4$7b287b20$cb8c8ec6@fiona> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Simon Robertson wrote: > > Hello, > I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 and I was wondering if I purchased > FreeBSD 4.0 how it would compare? The general questions I have are, > is the language & commands generally the same, does it recognise RPMS, > can I install applications like StarOffice, Netscape & VMware, and > would I be able to download/install any programs from other CDs or the > Internet? > Also I current run KDE on Mandrake 7.0, would there be any changes in > comparison to FreeBSD 4.0 KDE appearance or running? Lastly does > FreeBSD run faster than Linux? > Simon FreeBSD has emulation for Linux-based GNU systems current to RedHat 6.1 from 4.0-RELEASE and up. default compiler is GCC. BASH shell is in the ports. we have KDE and GNOME. Natice Netscape. *BSD system code is cleaner and written by people who are better than people developing for Linux (atleast in my oppionion, but the code IS cleaner). Cleaner code usualy does run faster. -- William D. Freeman http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s+:++ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E- W-- N o-- K- w--- O---- M- V- PS--- PE+ Y-- PGP 5-- X+ R tv++ b+ DI++++ D--- G-- e- h! r !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message