Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 21:16:42 +0000 From: ken@mui.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <199803080722.VAA00719@rocksalt.mui.net> In-Reply-To: <35024466.4F0303EF@mail.org>
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> Hi! I just want to know why I should run FreeBSD instead of Linux on > my P200MMX. I have no idea what the differences are.... I can't find > anything about it on the freebsd.org pages. First off, I'm new to this. Second off, I'm no expert, and might be the wrong person to answer this. I leave it to the experts to correct my statements below: I used to use slackware and later switched to Redhat. I've noticed a few differences. The only reason why I decided to use it was some literature I saw out there. Knowing that walnut creek and altavista both use it to run their sites, was a nice touch. A few gotchas ... I was used to using the irc for support. It's much harder to use it now, as there aren't too many around during the day hours vs lots of people all the time in the #linux channel. Support seems to be mostly through the mailing lists. In Linux, I used to use the newsgroups a lot. Another change. The other side of the coin ... The product seems to be much more stable. Less kludges from what I see. Less holes it seems, for hackers to crack your system. I've played with the system for about 2 weeks now, and have managed to get the following up: Apache, email, samba, mysql, my atapi zip drives (thanks to mike smith), ftp, registered my domain name, X, xntpd (for time synchronization), twm (my X desktop) and other stuff. I feel pretty good about it. Under linux, I think it may have taken me a little longer. Oh, btw --- a lot of o'reilly stuff seems to be written with freeBSD in mind. I dunno if that's a correct statement, but it seems like it. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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