From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 13:49:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA10803 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:49:08 -0700 Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA10755 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:48:55 -0700 Received: (from didier@localhost) by aida (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00691; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:33:28 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:33:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Didier Derny X-Sender: didier@aida To: brian kirkland cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why freeBSD instead of Linux? In-Reply-To: <199508211749.AA25732@cserve1.crystal.cirrus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, brian kirkland wrote: > Hi, I was just wondering after reading through the freeBSD home > page why you think someone should use freeBSD instead of Linux. > I mean, everyone I know uses Linux and there are tons of books > out there on Linux and from what I've seen Linux comes with more > programs than freeBSD. I am not set on using either one in particular, > I just want to use the one that is the most versatile, most stable, > and preferably the most used since that is the one likely to become > a standard. From what little I know it seems that Linux has freeBSD > beat, so please tell me what , if anything, makes freeBSD a more > logical choice for me. > > > > Interested but not yet convinced; > > Brian Kirkland > > bgk@crystal.cirrus.com > try both and you will see how you will be happy to go back to FreeBSD -- Didier Derny didier@aida.org