From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 12:46:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349E616A4CF for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net (mclean.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25E143D55 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron@bouncebk.com) Received: from user-119ajn2.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.78.226] helo=bouncebk.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AgVQS-0006L8-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:46:12 -0500 Message-ID: <400458F0.9040100@bouncebk.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:45:36 -0600 From: Ron McCy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A8F0@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> In-Reply-To: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A8F0@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:46:15 -0000 My problem with Linux was with documentation. I'm just learning *nix for the first time and needed a lot of concise information. I found it hard to pick up a Linux book and be able to figure out "what" was "where" and how to transfer that information to the installation I was using....even if I was trying the distribution that came packaged with the book I was reading! FreeBSD is quite the opposite. I can pretty much "trust" what I read to be true to what is really going on with any given BSD system I'm trying to work with. Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: >Hi, > >I have a question that is bothering my brains. Why do people need Linux >while there are great stable UNIX based systems as FreeBSD out there? > >Please don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that Linux is not >good, it's a failure or anything in this regards. All what I am asking >is, why do I have to learn Linux? (I did for a couple of months and then >started the FreeBSD way). > >I will appreciate if someone can shed a light on the differences, >commons, history, etc. > >Thanks. > >Cheers, > >Mazen > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Ron McCurry BounceBack, Inc. 1-800-830-5255 ext 4806