From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 19:41:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629C837B874 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA21382; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:41:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA03527; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:41:37 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: txtad@yahoo.com (Tad Marko) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical Comparasin 'tween FreeBSD and Linux Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 02:35:48 GMT Message-ID: <3994b6f4.54888505@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 2000 20:44:58 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hello, > >I have often heard FreeBSD is better than Linux in many ways, but I >have never seen these quantified. Does there exist a technical >comparasin between FreeBSD and Linux that quantifies these? I am >interested in technical facts only, not things like the cohesiveness of >the FreeBSD development effort vs. Linux (though that certainly is an >important factor in favor of FreeBSD). > >Honest, I'm not trying to start any sort of flame war. I happily use >both, I'm just wanting to know what makes them different. If you search through the mailing list archives you will come across this discussion *many* times. 'Better' is very subjective. It depends on what you want out of the system. FreeBSD is not for everyone. No OS is. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message