From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 7:47:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A3E437B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 07:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sky_tracker@yahoo.com) Received: from h90.c223.tor.velocet.net (HELO d.tracker) (216.138.223.90) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 May 2001 14:47:54 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4NANo202773; Wed, 23 May 2001 10:23:50 GMT (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:19:49 +0000 From: David Banning To: Kutay Alper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions Message-ID: <20010523101949.B2699@yahoo.com> Reply-To: David Banning References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kootkraze@hotmail.com on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:29:06AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is some info; http://www.futuresouth.com/~fullermd/freebsd/bsdvlin.html I know off the top, that linux has certain parts of their system "in develelopment" while FreeBSD using the -current a separate distribution for development. FreeBSD has the ports system for installing new software, which is an excellent system for installing new software. Most users who have used both linux and FreeBSD prefer ports by far. FreeBSD tends to have less drivers, but this is maybe good or bad depending on your perspective. FreeBSD's approach seems to one that drivers are only worth writing for good quality hardware, which keeps winmodems and any other $15 hardware out of the picture. What I like about FreeBSD is that everyone is operation out of the same source, so that you don't have one person running this type if FreeBSD and another person running another type. What is perhaps the most important deciding factor in this which-free-unix-should-I-use question is support. I don't know about linux support, but I can tell you that FreeBSD support is very good. BTW, FreeBSD does a great job of running linux and SCO software Hope this helps. Good luck. On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:29:06AM -0400, Kutay Alper wrote: > Hi, > > I had a couple of quick questions. I'm a long time linux user and was > wondering how bsd compared to linux. I'm very curious and will soon install > one of the bsd distributions. I was also wondering what were the differences > between the 3 bsd distributions (freebsd, openbsd, and netbsd). I run a > small business which requires a several servers and have been using linux > distributions for that purpose. However I've been told that bsd runs better. > Note that my questions about linux are in reference to the 2.4 kernel. > > Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. > > Kutay > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message