From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 9:41:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weck.brokersys.com (weck.brokersys.com [206.180.156.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4BA14FDE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbhost@brokersys.com) Received: from brokersys.com (cleve-27.brokersys.com [206.180.156.28]) by weck.brokersys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA31997 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:41:03 -0600 Message-ID: <38908347.56E6F9C1@brokersys.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:41:28 -0600 From: Dave Hostetler Reply-To: dbhost@brokersys.com Organization: Great Western Management Corp. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What are the differences? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been a Linux user for the last three years and I was wondering about FreeBSD. What are the differences between the two operating systems? I know you have got to be biased toward your own project and I can understand that, I was just wondering how FreeBSD compares to say Red Hat Linux or Debian GNU Linux? Is it pretty much compatible? What about software? Can I use my Red Hat .rpm programs with FreeBSD? Does wine work under FreeBSD? I would like to tinker with it just to have another option but I want to make sure I am not just getting more of the same... Dave Hostetler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message