From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 2 07:37:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA07683 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 07:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netgsi.com (grok.netgsi.com [192.55.203.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA07678 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 07:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by NetGSI.com (8.7.5/-A/UX-AMR-1.0) id KAA32325; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:37:24 -0400 From: cjohnson@netgsi.com (Christopher T. Johnson) Message-Id: <199707021437.KAA32325@NetGSI.com> Subject: Re: freebsd or linux? To: czhu@bu.edu (Chaizhi Zhu) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:37:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <33B985DD.3211@bu.edu> from "Chaizhi Zhu" at Jul 1, 97 06:34:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi: > > I've been thinking about installing linux on my PC. I actually got here > from a linux link. So after reading things about freebsd, I ve got one > question: which one should I go for? Linux or freebsd? Thanks for your > help. > > CZ I've been running linux to support our ISP for about a year and a half now. I got there because an SGI server died a horrable death and I needed a unix box up and running for less than 2k and in less than 24 hours. Since I had linux experence, that is what we choose. Currently, I'm slowly changing all of our linux boxes over to FreeBSD 2.2.2-STABLE. Shortly after finishing my first install of FreeBSD, I wrote a report to a closed mailing list and my HTML fiend put it up as http://www.netgsi.com/~cjohnson There are some changes that need to be made to the report because of some feed back I've already gotten from the FreeBSD community, but you might want to look at that report. Chris Johnson