From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 18: 5: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFC614BFF for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA27398; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 03:04:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05930; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 03:04:55 +0100 Message-ID: <36E1DF0D.CD0C1C0@eboa.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 03:06:05 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Imfeld Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advantages of FreeBSD References: <000101be682d$0b70a020$0995fbd0@daniel1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Imfeld wrote: > > I will soon be installing either FreeBSD or Linux on my computer. What > advantages does FreeBSD have over the Slackware distribution of Linux? Slackware does not have an upgrade mechanism. The latest release will no longer install using FTP. For the rest pick a thread, any thread, on FreeBSD versus Linux. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message