Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:02:58 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Jonathan Warkentin <j0n@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newuser Message-ID: <19990216200258.2052.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36C7508A.C6B9505E@home.com> of Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:39:06 PST References: <36C7508A.C6B9505E@home.com>
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> Hello, I was wondering how freebsd compares to Linux, and what > advantages freebsd has over Linux? Obviously, people on this list think FreeBSD is better than Linux, or they'd be using Linux. If you want to compare them, do that. From my perspective, FreeBSD is used by people with a Unix background while Linux is used by people with a Microsoft background -- but there will be plenty of disagreement with any such generalisation. > I heard freebsd has better > compatiblity...so what are your thoughts on that? Compatibility with what? > Also, are the > commands the same as Linux? The available commands are pretty much the same on all Unix variants and lookalikes. Each version has a few unique bits and each has gratuitous incompatibilities between useage of some commands. And there is a huge range of additional free software that will run on just about any Unix system. On systems like FreeBSD, with its superb "ports" collection, all the work of integrating these things has been done for you; and FreeBSD will run most Linux software (although I've never found a need for that). > Does freebsd come with a mail server like > PINE in Linux? There is no mail server called PINE. Unix has a concept of MTAs (Mail Transport Agents), which is probably what is meant by "mail server", and MUAs (Mail User Agents), which is what you use to read and send mail with. The standard MTA on FreeBSD is sendmail, and better MTAs such as qmail are in the ports collection. There are lots of MUAs in the ports collection, including pine and several superior programs. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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