From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 14:20:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05233 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.201.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA05228 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by out2.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA92046 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:20:15 GMT Received: from slip129-37-221-229.ny.us.ibm.net(129.37.221.229) by out2.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smacIQDFW; Sun Feb 23 22:20:06 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970223171857.006a3c40@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> X-Sender: jrmartz@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:18:57 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "John R. Martz" Subject: Linux versus FreeBSD??? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Folks, I probably should just RTFM instead of just glancing at it, but ... I'm still trying to put the pieces together in my head about what running a "free" Unix-like implementation on my PC might entail. Can someone comment on the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? One difference I'm really curious about is that I see lots of Linux books published, but haven't found one for FreeBSD yet. Can someone post some comments that will help me better understand the pro's and con's in going with either Linux or FreeBSD? Probably the answer is "It depends" ... but that's OK since right now I don't even know what the choice might depend on. ;-) If this is the wrong place to ask this question or it's already extensively discussed elsewhere, please just give me a shove in the appropriate direction and I'll go away. Not looking to cause any trouble ... Thanks, -john