From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 7 23:54:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22280 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 23:54:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22257 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 23:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA18115; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:23:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA15110; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:23:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980308182346.21541@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:23:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question References: <35024466.4F0303EF@mail.org> <199803080722.VAA00719@rocksalt.mui.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803080722.VAA00719@rocksalt.mui.net>; from ken@mui.net on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 09:16:42PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 March 1998 at 21:16:42 +0000, ken@mui.net wrote: >> Hi! I just want to know why I should run FreeBSD instead of Linux on >> my P200MMX. I have no idea what the differences are.... I can't find >> anything about it on the freebsd.org pages. > > Oh, btw --- a lot of o'reilly stuff seems to be written with freeBSD > in mind. I dunno if that's a correct statement, but it seems like > it. Sort of. From a technical point of view, FreeBSD is UNIX, no matter what the lawyers say. As a result, books on UNIX work very well with FreeBSD. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message