From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 08:06:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14227 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:06:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (news2.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14222 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:06:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA13039; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:05:45 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA02182; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:04:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA00302; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:46:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03737; Wed, 28 Oct 98 16:48:33 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA289689307; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:41:47 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 98 16:41:26 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Subject: Stand alone PC w/FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 To: STODOLSK@symbol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Stand" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Stand" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, FreeBSD can also be a good workstation OS. The main advantages in favor of Linux in such a setup is that there may be more commercial applications running under Linux than under FreeBSD. FreeBSD is more sympathetic to those (like me) who began using UNIX with Sun machines (with SunOS 4). You should also look at the ports and see if the free applications you want are already packaged (eg xemacs, ....). Happily running FreeBSD (as a workstation) TfH > Hello all, > I'm considering putting FreeBSD on my machine at home for X Windows development > using C/C++. I am not using this machine for much else. What are the advantage > s of using FreeBSD vs Linux? I'm finding much of FreeBSD's uses towards web ser > vers, ftp servers etc. I have searched high and low for individuals who use it > beacuse it is just a better workstation but no luck. > > Any help much appreciated > > Albert Stodolski > stodolsk@symbol.com > http://www.symbol.com > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message