From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 2:52:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from audrey.enst-bretagne.fr (audrey.enst-bretagne.fr [192.108.115.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CE237B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:52:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeho5791@student.uu.se) Received: from resel.enst-bretagne.fr (root@maisel-gw.enst-bretagne.fr [192.44.76.8]) by audrey.enst-bretagne.fr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f28AqGl31271 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:52:16 +0100 Received: from strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr (strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr [172.16.19.83]) by resel.enst-bretagne.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id LAA31993 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:52:16 +0100 Received: by strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:56:40 +0100 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:56:40 +0100 From: Jesper Holmberg To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu>; from dibble@cc.gatech.edu on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:25:11AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Let me take the opportunity to jump into this Linux-bashing thread, and ask a related question. I am a long time Linux user who have for quite a while been aware of the *BSDs, planning to try it out. Since a couple of weeks, I've had FreeBSD installed on an extra machine. No bad experiences so far. A lot of reading had to be done, but that was expected. But to sum up my experience somewhat naively, I would say: this is like Linux, just a lot of small differences. So my question to you would be: can you tell my just why I should hang in there? Why do you prefer FreeBSD? What will I discover if I stay that is not obvious at first sight? I know this could be regarded as flame-bait, but since this Linux-bashing was already started, I was thinking I could perhaps jump in and ask that the discussion be steered towards some information for us FreeBSD-newbies. Best, Jesper -- "But how can one be warm alone?" Jesper Holmberg jeho5791@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message