From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 21:53:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B304A37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CAB43E4A for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 520023893678-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18Ws6h-0000uS-05; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:53:27 +0100 Received: from pD901727A.dip.t-dialin.net (520023893678-0001@[217.1.114.122]) by fwd03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18Ws6Y-1Tf3lgC; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:53:18 +0100 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:52:46 +0000 (GMT) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: James Hicks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030110064747.T31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 520023893678-0001@t-dialin.net 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 There have been many long discussions about all your questions. A good starting point to get all the answers you need is the FreeBSD homepage www.freebsd.org . And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself. Have fun! Uli. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, James Hicks wrote: > To whom it may concern, > My name is James. I'm a junior college graduate with an A.S. degree in > Computer Applications. I took a class in UNIX about a year ago. The os we > used was Mandrake Linux. I've learned to like Red Hat and have version 8.0 > on my home machine. I have been doing a lot of reading in magazines like > pcmagazine and sought info online using sources like the freebsd homepage, > zdnet, cnet, etc. I'm hearing alot of your UNIX os. I have a few questions > about the system. First of all, is freebsd a real UNIX? By that I'm asking > whether or not there is real UNIX code in it or is it a clone just like > linux is? Second, what type of file system does it use? Does it have a > journaling one like ext3? Do UNIX systems require any kind of defrag? I was > told by my UNIX instructor that freebsd had hardware recognition trouble. Is > this true and if so has it been fixed? I have also read that a lot of > sysadmins are nervous of putting mission critical apps on a enterprise linux > system and prefer to use freebsd. What is the problem that I'm hearing that > linux has? Do you believe the berkeley system to have code that has better > stability than the GNU systems? I look forward to your reply. Thanks > > James Hicks > ytwok_karate@hotmail.com > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message