Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:15:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ron <pro1@doitnow.com> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970226191257.8482I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3314A63C.3DD6@doitnow.com>
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Ron wrote: > 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? We all think so :-) > If so, in what ways? This is a fairly religious question. You can see what other's opinions are at http://www.freebsd.org. > 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. This depends on what you are doing, but in my experience FreeBSD-based workstations do an excellent job with networks. > Will most software made for UNIX work on both FreeBSD and LINUX? Is > there more software available for FreeBSD than LINUX? Most Linux software can be ported to FreeBSD, and if you can't do that, it has a Linux emulator that can many Linux apps, depending on how intrusive the program is. > 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!) The install program for FreeBSD is much smoother, in my opinion. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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