From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 7 3:46:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF72A14EBF for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA10764; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:43:57 -0700 (PDT) From: dmp@aracnet.com Message-ID: <37D4ECFC.EAC8D91@aracnet.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 03:46:20 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Urquidy Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: difference between freebsd & linux References: <19990907070845.17602.rocketmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oscar Urquidy wrote: > What i found too, is that most of the people using FreeBSD, are network > administrators, webmasters, and things realted to use the FreeBSD as a > server, on serius jobs. So what about FreeBSD workstation? It seems that FreeBSD lags behind Linux when it comes to supporting the newest PC workstation hardware, but only by a little, and that's changing for our benefit, I believe. Thanks to our wonderful Linux "emulation," we can run almost any Linux program, including all those nice multimedia apps, like l3enc and midi2cs that Heiko mentioned. You'd have to ask someone more knowledgable than I if you want to know the limitations of the Linux emu, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message