Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:27:46 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) To: Mick Petrick <100231.1602@compuserve.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux ? Message-ID: <v02140b1cad830e1b39e9@[206.104.22.180]>
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At 1:23 PM 3/30/96, Mick Petrick wrote: >I am looking to purchase either FreeBSD or Linux. Most of the people I >know are using Linux, but I hear that FreeBSD may be better. I would like >to decide on an operating system. > >I am looking to develop TCP/IP software. Asking on a FreeBSD list is sure to produce positive recomendations for FreeBSD. And here's another: If you are to develop TCP/IP software some of your most important considerations should be stability and standards. *BSD has always been the Un*x networking standard. Many industrial strengh books are available for BSD networking while most all the Linux books I've seen are the "lets capitalize on Linux popularity by publishing a book with Linux in the title" type. I have on order: Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume III (BSD): Client Server Programming Douglas E. Comer and David Stevens Prentice Hall, 1996, 2nd Edition Bookcode tcpip_v3bsd, pages 528, ISBN 0-13-260969-X Discount 23%, Bookpool Price $42.50, List Price $55.00 to complete my collection of Stevens networking books. Good stuff. Bookpool can be found at <http://www.bookpool.com/> -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison
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