Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:43:11 -0400 (EDT) From: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> To: Kristof Peeters <kristof.peeters@iname.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990422213501.5350A-100000@bingsun2> In-Reply-To: <000801be8cfb$67b2bec0$47f74bc1@myplace.ping.be>
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Kristof Peeters wrote: > Well, actually, I'm still figuring it all out. > > One thing I know for sure... the biggest payments are out from now on. > So I decided to enter the era of the stable and reliable systems. > > In a local magazine I read about Linux versus FreeBSD, but they didn't > actually came to a point. So maybe someone can tell me, why do > I have to choose FreeBSD instead of Linux? > > The only difference between them I know till now, is no matter what > you choose, it depends on if you like an icy penguin or rather > prefer a little devil. > In my opinion, FreeBSD is more traditional Unix. There have been two major branches of Unixes: AT&T and BSD. FreeBSD comes from 4.4BSD. So many documents of BSD is applicable to FreeBSD. Linux is written from scratch. So if you look at the Linux kernel, some data structures are different from traditional Unix. Besides, FreeBSD is easy to install, to add a system call. Please search the Mailing list archive. Many many people have asked the similar question. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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