From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 11:45:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA08335 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA08330 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA25294; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:45:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:45:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Nathan Ferris cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux In-Reply-To: <199701210400.UAA11087@spider.innercite.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Nathan Ferris wrote: > I'm running windows95 on a 486 machine. I would like to partition my hard > drive and run Win95 and Linux (Debian) or FreeBSD simultaneously. I think > that I have the partitioning thing about down, but I can't decide whether I > should go in for Linux or FreeBSD. Are there any major differences? From > the info given out in both web sites it seems as though they are pretty > much the same. Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks They are quite different in philosophy and design. I would suggest checking out the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org. Many such discussions have gone on; perhaps one of those can give you some insight. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major