From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 17:40:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DFB37B412 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat ([12.93.208.32]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010917004000.OYJL8481.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@tomcat>; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:40:00 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Earle Lyons" , Subject: RE: Why FreeBSD over Redhat Linux? Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:39:49 -0400 Message-ID: <002801c13f11$41fbcee0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <004a01c13f04$378b9c40$5eeaf7a5@oemcomputer> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal 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 Hi Earle, Love the HTML message (psst... please don't do it again, HTML e-mail is bad, especially if you want a response). Why FreeBSD over RedHat 7? Well, let's see... first and foremost... FreeBSD ships with the proper tools to do a kernel recompile, as opposed to our "friends" from the other side... (wonder how many heads rolled after that happened?). Secondly, the stability of FreeBSD. Linux may be nice, but there are questions regarding it's stability as compared to that of a FreeBSD system. There are other reasons, covered by those with more knowledge. As far as a graphical interface for the install. Yes and no. Yes as far as having something aside from a plain console type install and no with respect to having a full blown EGA/VGA install routine. After all, you're only going to see the install routine once, why put time into making it pretty? *grins* --- Andy -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Earle Lyons Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 7:06 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why FreeBSD over Redhat Linux? Do you have any articles that cover the question "Why FreeBSD 4.3 over Redhat Linux 7"? Does FreeBSD have a graphical installation process? Thanks, earle lyons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message