From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 8 10:25:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4C637B401; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4746; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:29:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3A82E3D9.99D97040@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 10:22:17 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switching from Linux References: <20010208070739.A82647@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > I would be over the moon if someone who knows a Linux distribution would > make a start on this. Any takers? I've thought about this, but I don't think I'd be good at it. I use FreeBSD as a desktop machine and development platform, but I've never use it as a server of any kind. So if I wrote any comparisons between FreeBSD and Linux, I would be ignoring its strengths (server), saying there's no difference between the two (development), then pointing out all the annoying quirks (desktop). Also, since all Linuces are installed and maintained differently from each other, it would be hard to compare a single FreeBSD versus the whole Linux family. And I suspect that you would want more than just a comparison between FreeBSD and the Linux kernel with GNU environment. Comparing it with Redhat or Suse, FreeBSD would win hands down. But comparing it to Slackware or Debian would result in a much closer race. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message