From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 10:42:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D61237B71A for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2001 18:42:24 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:44:00 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: jlb@xsequor.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re:New to Linux... just found FreeBSD Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://sites.inka.de/mips/unix/bsdlinux.html -- BSD - Linux with a twist Try that link. It's not the best but it's good. Just start reading the FreeBSD handbook or freebsddiary.org and just arious other info about freebsd, and it won't take long before you figure out that FreeBSD is either better for your needs or worse. I got hooked on FreeBSD after I started reading about it and realized linux just sucks for my needs, FreeBSD does everything that linux does and just a lot better and more gracefully --- but that's my opinion. On 03/19/2001 11:06:16 AM, John Baxter is quoted as saying: . . . .|I am fairly new to Linux, about 6 months or so. I have seen references . . . .|to FreeBSD but I had not really taken time to look into it. Can I use . . . .|Linux code and recompile it on FreeBSD and it work? . . . .|Is the code base as large as Linux? Sorry to keep refering to Linux, it . . . .|is how I got started with "Open Source" and I know very little other . . . .|than it. Is there a FreeBSD vs. Linux document on the internet, or . . . .|something to help me learn by compairing what I know about Linux to the . . . .|unknown of FreeBSD? Something to point out the strengths and weaknesses . . . .|of each. . . . .| . . . .|Thanks, . . . .|John Baxter . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message