From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 0:39:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A41C37B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cardv@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010423073956.DTVY18489.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:39:56 -0700 Received: (from cardv@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f3N7bRX26511 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:37:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:37:27 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <20010423023727.A26452@marx.alton1.il.home.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from bvagnoni@speakeasy.net on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:20:34AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:20:34AM -0400, SPEAKEASY wrote: > Dear Sirs; > > I'm considering trying FreeBSD and have experience with both System 5 > Version 4, Redhat Linux 6.xx and greater and Suse 6.x.x and greater.What are > their similarities and differences. Is your OS closer to Unix if so exactly > without writing paragraphs are the major differences; if any? Why if I'm use > to using and familiar with Redhat or Suse would I want to switch to FreeBSD? Forget about Red Hat. It ships with a beta compiler that may or may not work. It is also known for a great number of bugs that it ships with. SuSE is not bad. Things generally work out of the box, and YaST is great for new users, although it can annoy more experienced users. SuSE has one of the best XFree86 configuration utilities (sax). All in all a very good distribution. FreeBSD is based on an older and more mature codebase. It has incredible performance and stability. I'm sure that many people here will be able to tell you more. My suggestion is to try them all. Decide for yourself which you like better. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message