From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 9:18:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D9037B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC60C18C3; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:43:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D386D18C2; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:43:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:43:06 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Jesper Holmberg Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About Unix In-Reply-To: <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So my question to you would be: can you tell my just why I should hang > in there? Why do you prefer FreeBSD? What will I discover if I stay > that is not obvious at first sight? > > I know this could be regarded as flame-bait, but since this > Linux-bashing was already started, I was thinking I could perhaps jump > in and ask that the discussion be steered towards some information for > us FreeBSD-newbies. Well, It'd be more accurate to say that Linux is like FreeBSD not the other way around. :) FreeBSD seems to me to be a lot more stable then Linux in general. IE, I'm running FreeBSD 4.2, not Redhat Kernal 6.x with Kernal Version whatever, whatever. When I CVSUP up to the latest and greatest I do not suddenly have a whole bunch of new problems due to incompatibilities. I also like the the FreeBSD philosphy over the Linux one. FreeBSD Core team members are dedicated to making the best server OS that they can. They for the most part could care less if any one else used it. (Not that they take that to extremes, ever member of the Core team I've ever talked to and met have been nice guys with lots of knowledge.) Whereas Linux's direction is very reminiscint of Microsoft, Linux MUST be installed on every computer in the world - or else. :) Linux is a good OS. FreeBSD is a great OS. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message