From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 08:27:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA14056 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14047 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from max4-182.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA29643; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:27:34 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:27:46 -0600 To: Mick Petrick <100231.1602@compuserve.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux ? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison