Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 01:26:44 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: art2pres@spiritone.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which to choose? Message-ID: <199801060926.BAA27354@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 00:53:51 PST." <34B1F11F.84A8D899@spiritone.com>
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>I am currently a student at Portland Community College in Portland >Oregon. I am a CS student and am very interested in setting up UNIX on >my box at home. I have looked around and am a little confused at the >differences between the different 'free' flavors of UNIX out there. For >instance what would be the main advantages to selecting freeBSD over say >Linux? Is there a korne shell in freeBSD? > >I am a novice UNIX user and will taking some C courses that are UNIX >based and would appreciate any comments or suggestions you can offer me. From a user's perspective, you should find that the systems have a very similar user interface - most if not all of the shells available for one system are also available for the other. FreeBSD is popular in Portland - popular at Portland State (being used in some OS courses), and with two of the FreeBSD Project's founders living in the suburbs. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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