Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Oscar Urquidy <osc20@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: difference between freebsd & linux Message-ID: <19990907070845.17602.rocketmail@web123.yahoomail.com>
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--- "Benjamin M. Manes" <maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu> wrote: ...... > Linux is > considerd better as a personal desktop system for > x86, while many say > FreeBSD is far superior then Linux as a server. > Various reasons. > ...... Hi. I'm a begginer to FreeBSD and Unix (sounds like a tutorial) and i've used Windows for a while. For school reasons i started looking for FreeBSD and Unix information. I already heard of Linux as a Unix for PC. After looking around the FreeBSD website, i was conviced enough to try it (hope i'm not a victim of a kind of marketing :] ) , so i read a lot and downloaded a lot too. By now, i have the FreeBSD installed on a 390 Mb partition, and still have to configure the Kernel, and i am dealing with a "not inodes left" or something like that; but i have made it with the handbook and faq files, and i hope i can make it to the X11 with a desktop only by consulting the existing information without asking nothing to the questions-list (of course i'm planing to reinstall all in a bigger partition, hey, i'm learning). I must say to the Documentation project team that they have made a very very good job and i hope i can help the project in the future. What i found too, is that most of the people using FreeBSD, are network administrators, webmasters, and things realted to use the FreeBSD as a server, on serius jobs. So what about FreeBSD workstation? By now i'm installing FreeBSD on my home pc, and obviously planing to use it as "home pc", and i don't doubt about the capabilities of FreeBSD as a server, but i would really like to hear an opinion about FreeBSD as standalone system. I already browsed the package collection but haven't installed nothing yet (i'll get there soon). I saw some CAD software, lots of games!, and a lot of another stuff. At least i saw netscape so later i will post from FreeBSD. So i would like to now if there is anybody there happy with his (or her) FreeBSD workstation. Greetings Oscar Urquidy Electronics Eng. student and musician. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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