From owner-freebsd-www Wed Feb 26 13:09:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03479 for www-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from in1.doitnow.com (root@doitnow.com [207.98.156.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA03464 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:09:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from server (phx-ts3-46.doitnow.com [207.98.157.145]) by in1.doitnow.com (/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02845 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:10:15 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3314A63C.3DD6@doitnow.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:08:13 -0700 From: Ron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there. I'm hoping you can answer a couple of questions for a neophyte. I am going to school at De Vry in the CIS program and will be taking a C/UNIX course next trimester. My question is: Is FreeBSD better than LINUX? If so, in what ways? The way I want to use a UNIX type O/S is at work. We are using WIN95 right now for our Network and it's VERY slow. If I understand correctly, UNIX provides a much faster network environment. Is this true? We don't have a large network: A server/workstation and two more single workstations. Will most software made for UNIX work on both FreeBSD and LINUX? Is there more software available for FreeBSD than LINUX? I have a copy of LINUX right now and it seems rather difficult to work with. (Of course, some of it could be because I know virtually nothing about UNIX!) If these are dumb questions, please feel free to tell me so. If not, I would appreciate any information you could provide. Thanks, Ron Hagan Pro1@doitnow.com