From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 9:20:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBF437B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010308172001.SUOA811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:20:01 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f28HLCP09048 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:21:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:21:12 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308112112.D8865@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr>; from jeho5791@student.uu.se on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:56:40AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:56:40AM +0100, Jesper Holmberg wrote: > 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? It really depends on how you use the computer. FreeBSD is a better server OS. If you are running a busy server, then you will probably prefer FreeBSD over Linux. On the other hand, if you want a nice desktop computer that alows you to play 3D games, and listen to mp3s while using the latest hardware, then you might find Linux a better choice. Does this mean that Linux can't be a server? No. Does it mean that FreeBSD can't work on the desktop? No. Now for some specifics... FreeBSD does have better memory management than Linux. If you like to run many apps at the same time, then you will notice this. Also, upgrading and maintaining a FreeBSD system is easier because of the centralized development model. The ports system is awesome. There is just no other way to describe it. It easily surpasses the usefulness of RPM. Finally, it is nice to be able to upgrade your entire OS whenever you feel like it. HTH - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message