From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 12:35:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF3437B401 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from jade (jade.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.140.161]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0BKYRp06839; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:34:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:32:31 -0500 (EST) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@jade To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Gurley=2C_Fran=E7ois=22?= Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Question? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] "Gurley, Fran=E7ois" wrote: > I'm interested in learning a new OS and I have the choice of learning > FreeBSD or Linux. A lot of people tell me that Linux is good but no one s= eem > to know something about freeBSD! >=20 > =09I want to know wich one will the best and why! >=20 If you go to a book store, you will see a lot of Linux books and almost no FreeBSD book. But most of the Linux books are talking things that are equally applied to FreeBSD, such as X-windows, shell, basic Unix maintenance, etc. However, if you look for books discussing traditional Unix design, many of them are already there for long time. I use FreeBSD a lot, but I also have some Linux kernel experience (I have guided students doing Kernel projects on Redhat 6.2). I still think FreeBSD is better designed O.S. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message