From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 05:30:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19814 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 05:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA19797 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 05:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id NAA11645; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:30:37 +0100 (BST) Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id NAA05443; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:24:52 +0100 Message-ID: <19980708132451.C2481@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:24:51 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: 19345@freemail.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd References: <199807080739.HAA26360@freesrv2.freemail.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807080739.HAA26360@freesrv2.freemail.nl>; from 19345@freemail.nl on Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 07:39:45AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 07:39:45AM +0000, 19345@freemail.nl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a student from Holland, and willing to learn about a different > operating system. My question is why I should choose FreeBSD over > other operating sytems such as Linux. FreeBSD is derived from 4.4BSD from Berkeley, the end result of a couple of decades (at least) of UNIX development. It's very mature, stable and well documented (the 4.4 source is available and there are several books, by the people who wrote the software, explaining how the guts of the system really work). Linux, on the other hand, is a completely new UNIX-like system built from scratch. Externally it looks much the same but there are big differences inside. I would imagine (although I've never tried) that it would be a lot harder to figure out what's going on inside the Linux kernel, starting from knowing nothing. Of course, if you just want to *use* a UNIX-like OS, they are both free, so try them both out and use the one that you like the best :) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message