From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 14:05:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA11606 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 14:05:28 -0700 Received: from mailhost.PII.COM (pii.com [192.77.209.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA11597 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 14:05:24 -0700 Received: from PII.COM by PII.COM (4.1/SMI-4.4) id AA14082; Mon, 21 Aug 95 14:13:23 PDT Received: by smtp with Microsoft Mail id <3038F4C2@smtp>; Mon, 21 Aug 95 14:04:02 PDT From: Robert Clark To: Submit to FreeBSD Questions Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 14:03:00 PDT Message-Id: <3038F4C2@smtp> Encoding: 31 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Why FreeBSD instead of LINUX? Major reasons: FreeBSD is cleaner. There are fewer revisions / patch numbers. The built-in drivers support my hardware. I feel more confident that the 'features' of FreeBSD are not bugs. FreeBSD's heritage means that there are going to be lots of manuals sitting around, that are close to being right. And chances are, you can borrow them. FreeBSD is not a hackfest, it just works. As a native speaker of English, FreeBSD is easier to read than LINUX. The FreeBSD team seems to value 'works great' more than 'Ohh Coool'. Professional UNIX people tend to be more interested in helping with a BSD dirivative, than a strange unknown from Finland. There are fewer people turning out CDs, so there is less confusion about versions. NO LILO! Trivial reasons: It has a cooler logo. No one argues about how to pronounce it. The install process looks better. I can manipulate the install files, ie bin.aa, with my dos tools. (Pkzip for dos.) The 2.0.5 comes with an almost pre-setup httpd. (A webserver in other words.) robert.clark@pii.com