Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:21:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008201726.2709E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961008235313.wb2oyc@cyberenet.net>
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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > >From a long time user of Linux (favorite distribution is > Debian), and a newbie to FreeBSD, I'd have to say at this > point that I prefer Linux. That is without consideration > for ANY differences in the architecture or internals, and > purely from a user perspective. The things I'm having > problems with under FreeBSD (minicom, ppp, console behavior, > memory utilization, fvwm95, etc, etc) all work flawlessly > under Debian Linux. Because minicom and fvwm95 were written for linux and were ported/hacked to FreeBSD. Use what you like. If you like having toys and don't mind poor scalability & stability (Do you know any ftp.cdrom.com-sized Linux boxes?), then use Linux. If you want a serious _server_, use FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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