From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 08:59:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA06124 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com ([204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA06119 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14501; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:59:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:59:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Mick Petrick <100231.1602@compuserve.com> cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux ? In-Reply-To: <315D8A16.6861@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Mick Petrick wrote: > I am looking to purchase either FreeBSD or Linux. Most of the people I > know are using Linux, but I hear that FreeBSD may be better. I would like > to decide on an operating system. > > I am looking to develop TCP/IP software. If you're developing TCP/IP software, definitely FreeBSD. I just completed a project at work involving TCP/IP, and I developed it on my work machine, but it had to run on a Linux machine. There were several things that broke on Linux, most of which should have worked according to Linux's own man pages (most of which are just copied BSD man pages).