From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 07:28:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A0C16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from qtm.net (mummra.qtm.net [216.163.32.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 742CC43D5C for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from PTFD9100@beanstalk.net) Received: (qmail 46691 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2004 15:27:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fcoffice.ptfd.org) (ptfd9100@216.163.59.5) by mummra.qtm.net with SMTP; 12 Jan 2004 15:27:07 -0000 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" Organization: PTFD To: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" , Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:25:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A8F0@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> In-Reply-To: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A8F0@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401121025.20640.PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> Subject: Re: BSD Unix vs. Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:28:12 -0000 I have used FreeBSD, and love it. It is on my servers. For me, I have to run Win98se for just a few legacy apps, that will NOT be ported to linux or unix unfortunately. If we could get Netraverse to port Win4Lin to BSD I'd be totally on board. Untill then Gentoo is the distro the with a "portage" system as near to BSD as any I found. Mike On Sunday 11 January 2004 04:30 am, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question that is bothering my brains. Why do people need Linux > while there are great stable UNIX based systems as FreeBSD out there? > > Please don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that Linux is not > good, it's a failure or anything in this regards. All what I am asking > is, why do I have to learn Linux? (I did for a couple of months and then > started the FreeBSD way). > > I will appreciate if someone can shed a light on the differences, > commons, history, etc. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, > > Mazen > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com