From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 3 13:10:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.showmaster.com (solaris.showmaster.com [207.204.83.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB9714A0D for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:10:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjohnson@showmaster.com) Received: from rash (dhcp14.showmaster.com [207.204.83.113]) by solaris.showmaster.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA17086 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:11:54 -0600 From: "Tony Johnson" To: Subject: RE: FreeBSD against Linux Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:10:35 -0600 Message-ID: <002f01bf3dd2$d8090700$7153cccf@showmaster.com> 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: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Speaking of FreeBSD vs. Linux, is FreeBSD going to IPO anytime in the near or distant future?? Redhat is doing surprisingly well. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Simon J Mudd Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:59 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD against Linux grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com (Greg Lehey) writes: > Also, if you want to prefer FreeBSD, install it first, and then get to > know it. Then install Linux; you'll hate it. On the other hand, if > you install Linux first and get to know it, and then install FreeBSD, > you'll hate FreeBSD. Hate is probably not the right word to use. "get highly frustrated" may be a better way of putting the feeling. Also bear in mind that as there are different distributions of linux, this influences the feel a lot. Maybe Debian would be an easier distribution of linux to try as I think the feel is closer to FreeBSD (BSD) than Maybe RedHat or SuSE (SysV). Whichever you choose, if you have someone who knows the version you are trying this will help ENORMOUSLY. In both cases if you have time, take time to learn the systems, the differences and find the similarities. > A lot of preferences are really "what you're used to". It's very > difficult to be objective. Very true. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message