Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:09:50 +0300 (AST) From: root@isis.dynip.com To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Very Common Question Message-ID: <199902191310.QAA44457@isis.dynip.com>
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Hi there, Continuing the series of questiions, I am hearing tooooo much now about linux. Linux started , may be , some a year or so before FreeBSD, and has become very common, even the guys who don't know a shit about computers, when you tell them I am running unix at home, of course refering to your FreeBSD machine, they immediately tell you, Linux ?? I'm sick of it, now I hear that IBM is making some deal with Linux people for installing Linux on their new machines, I am very very sad, and very very gelous. I wan too know, in full detail, the difference between FreeBSD, and Linux, why is linux more popular, why the heck FreeBSD doesnot have support for simple things like Parralel port scanners, why the linux ports is few Gigabytes, why I am still pretty sure that FreeBSD is better. I wan to know why every time I go to a web page on the net to hunt for extra-portal (like extra-terresterial) software, I find the following Menu: Windows 95/98 Windows NT OS2 Machintosh Linux Is this list missing something. Why, despite the support of linux in FreeBSD down to the kernel level, you can expect the following response when you download any softwaare from menu item no. 5 from above menu (Linux for the dummy) -----> FreeBSD response ----> unknown elf, brand with elf if you try to brand, it can't brand. in short it is not runnable. (period) I am very sad, someone MUST answer these VERY VERY common questions, but NOT with conventional answers like: * if you are still asking which is better, you did not do your homework * Linux is unix-like, FreeBSD IS unix * Linux comes from 3 vendors, FreeBSD comes from one .ORG * Linux kernel is unix, while the resst is crap. * FreeBSD Network system is a great thing, and all ISPs are shifting to it. Please guys, some real, and in-depth answers. from a very FreeBSDish guy. thanks -- - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. ~o .^. ---------------------------- ___ o~ .00 ) Static Email : osiris2002@yahoo.com /| o~ /)( Bouncing Email : root@isis.dynip.com / | | \ Web Site : http://isis.dynip.com:80 (Frames) ___/ | / \ Anon FTP Site : ftp://isis.dynip.com:21 (anonymous) | /''___/ / | Gopher Site : gopher://isis.dynip.com:70 | /'''/___/ | Network News : isis.dynip.com (Read, Post, Xfer) __|/'''/ Mailing Lists : majordomo@isis.dynip.com (public) pgp key : finger root@isis.dynip.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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