From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 6 11:20:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16246 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from winslow.net66.net (winslow.net66.net [206.139.80.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16236 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:20:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trout@net66.com) Received: from trout (track92.grandcentral.net [208.214.226.144]) by winslow.net66.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id NAA08199 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:20:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981106132012.00914120@net66.com> X-Sender: trout@net66.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:20:12 -0600 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Aaron Parmelee Subject: linux or freebsd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello out there. i have never used freebsd or linux, but i have used unix (to a certain extent) at work. i would like to learn more about unix by putting it on my personal machine at home. i have two flavors: redhat linux 5.1 and the walnut creek release of freebsd 2.2.7.. at the most, i will be using the machine to check email (and the web), learn to take care of a unix box, and c programming. which would be better for my purposes? i have tried the linux, but it was (apparantly) incompatible with some of my hardware, which freebsd can (i hope) handle. thanks -aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message