From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 1 15:40:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from milkyway.org (a98210.ntown.com [208.245.98.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C2837B609 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toby@milkyway.org) Received: from rigel.milkyway.org (rigel.milkyway.org [205.241.194.19]) by milkyway.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA12120; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:55:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from toby@milkyway.org) Received: by rigel.milkyway.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BFFBE7.61D79A00@rigel.milkyway.org>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:36:18 -0400 Message-ID: <01BFFBE7.61D79A00@rigel.milkyway.org> From: Toby Swanson To: "'leegold'" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:36:14 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08/01/00 leegold wrote; SCO has the rep. of being the best documented - is this true? I last admin'ed an Openserver 5.? box and the docs were very thorough. The company I worked for paid HUNDREDS of dollars for the docs and a couple thousand for the OS plus several hundred more for a 5 problem per year service contract. Compared to FreeBSD on the same hardware SCO seemed much slower. FreeBSD also seemed more stable and reliable and was easier to install and configure. If you have more money than time SCO may be the way to go. IMHO, FreeBSD is better general purpose OS. Toby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message