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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:01:34 -0500
From:      Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com>
To:        Louis-Philippe Groulx <dark_matrix41@yahoo.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:
Message-ID:  <20020330010139.CUOU24482.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@there>
In-Reply-To: <20020329233921.94706.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020329233921.94706.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com>

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> easy to learn between: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, QNX
> or Linux.

I was determined to find an alternative to Windows98 and as such I tried all 
of these. I settled on FreeBSD because:

- it runs on my machine and I was able to configure -all- my hardware
- I found the doc's at freebsd.org far & away better than anyone else's
- To me it's got the best balance between ease-of-use<=>power

OpenBSD won't boot my machine properly. NetBSD is more sparse than FreeBSD 
but it runs on just about anything. Of the linux's I like Debian & Slackware 
(couldn't get any of the others to install) but they're complex compared to 
the *BSD's. Linux has better support for more weird hardware than the *BSD's. 
QNX froze my machine repeatedly, just like Windows; something I've never seen 
FreeBSD or Linux do.

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