From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 3:34:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 03:34:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3C037B402 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from www-5.www.nl.demon.net ([195.11.243.26] helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 145RDp-000A7Z-00; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:34:21 +0000 To: "Kenneth Sun" , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: q's Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:34:21 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi there! I'm Ken. I mailed to ask what is FreeB> SD? You didn't make it clear in you web site. Mmm. Well I think it is pretty clear on the Web site. Read the FAQ for more information. >And, is it better than Linux? Very subjective. I have used Linux a lot and more recently am exploring BSD. My initial impression is that BSD is faster and more memory efficient than Linux for most things except X11, where I have found it painfully slow. I wouldnt put to much store by my opinion on that though, I havent really looked into it. I think BSD is a little more difficult to learn at the beginning than Linux is. But I am an old System V Unix hack, so that may just be me.. >I've used Linux for my Java programmi> ng. Will FreeBSD do better than Linux on Java? Better, in what sense ? > Can I use my old Linux partitions? Can BSD run as smooth as Linu> x on my MMX200 with only 64megs of ram with a TNT2 vide> o card and a SB-Live! sound card? You can run many Linux applications on FBSD. FBSD has it's own file system types, I dont know what you can do with EXT2 fs's under them. As for your particular hardware. I have no idea. Try it out ! Cliff > Thanks! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message