Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 2:00 AM Subject: Linux / FreeBSD What is the difference between FreeBSD and Linux? What would you say are the major differences? Thanks for your help. Carlos (A FreeBSD Newbie) :-) ------=_NextPart_000_008D_01BECB85.961C0460 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hope this helps, and I hope I don't = get banned=20 from the e-mail list. Ha!

Fact: Linux is a UNIX clone, BSD is a UNIX based OS. = Having installed the following: Linux - RedHat, = Debian,=20 Slackware, and several others, I found the Linux strain quirky and = erratic at=20 times, with unexplainable lockups and system downtime.=20 Having installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 thru 3.2-RELEASE, I have found the OS to = be=20 "SOLID as a ROCK" in almost every aspect, at which time I = dropped any=20 notion of ever installing another Linux box. I have been able to = accomplish the=20 following under BSD and have them work as advertised: A Firewall, Proxy = Server,=20 Apache 1.3.6 Web Server, Email Server (Internet) - all with minimal=20 configuration and troubleshooting. The KDE 1.0 and higher works = great=20 under BSD - where as under Linux I pulled every last-living hair out of = my head.=20 $@$@$# Ha!

-----Original = Message-----
From:=20 Carlos Taylor <disciple@exis.net>
To: = freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.O= RG=20 <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.O= RG>
Date:=20 Sunday, July 11, 1999 2:00 AM
Subject: Linux /=20 FreeBSD

What is the difference between = FreeBSD and=20 Linux?

What would you say are the=20 major differences?

Thanks for your = help.

Carlos (A FreeBSD Newbie) =20 :-)

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