From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 18:19:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C69137B404 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7286 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2002 02:19:05 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-133-140.nfas.greensburg-tnt-2.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.133.140) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 31 Mar 2002 02:19:05 -0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9F44844F; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:21:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Louis-Philippe Groulx" , "Steve Brown" Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:16:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2472) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <20020330010139.CUOU24482.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Message-Id: <20020331022135.DD9F44844F@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:01:34 -0500, Steve Brown wrote: > >> easy to learn between: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, QNX >> or Linux. > >I was determined to find an alternative to Windows98 and as such I tried all >of these. I settled on FreeBSD because: > >- it runs on my machine and I was able to configure -all- my hardware >- I found the doc's at freebsd.org far & away better than anyone else's >- To me it's got the best balance between ease-of-use<=>power > >OpenBSD won't boot my machine properly. NetBSD is more sparse than FreeBSD >but it runs on just about anything. Of the linux's I like Debian & Slackware >(couldn't get any of the others to install) but they're complex compared to >the *BSD's. Linux has better support for more weird hardware than the *BSD's. >QNX froze my machine repeatedly, just like Windows; something I've never seen >FreeBSD or Linux do. I used slackware about 5 years ago, and I thought i'd rather have a root canal then install it again.. I dont know if it's changed since though. i went to freebsd, and everything installed easy/quick --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 7FEC 10AA 056B F8DE AC1E 6965 FBBE 9601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message