Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 07:05:47 +1000 From: "Don Hansford" <donh@halenet.com.au> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: difference between freebsd & linux Message-ID: <002401bef974$cd53db20$262137cb@igor> References: <19990907070845.17602.rocketmail@web123.yahoomail.com>
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G'day Oscar, I am currently using BSD as a standalone workstation, with no problems at all. Now that I have finally managed to snaffle an external modem, I'm about to set it up as my home network gateway. As for room, I started out with a 1GB partition, stretched it to 2, then just blew Windows right off the machine, and now have 4.3 GB, all for FreeBSD! If it wasn't for the necessity for work-related stuff, I wouldn't have a Windows machine in the house!! I have a mate with Linux on his machine, and it really is interesting to switch between them, just to check out the differences (and similarities). We're hoping to have the local Users Group up and running in the next few weeks, for all flavours of alternate OS's. Regards Igor ----- Original Message ----- From: Oscar Urquidy <osc20@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 5:08 PM Subject: Re: difference between freebsd & linux > > > --- "Benjamin M. Manes" <maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu> wrote: > > ...... > > Linux is > > considerd better as a personal desktop system for > > x86, while many say > > FreeBSD is far superior then Linux as a server. > > Various reasons. > > ...... > > > Hi. > I'm a begginer to FreeBSD and Unix (sounds like a tutorial) and i've > used Windows for a while. For school reasons i started looking for > FreeBSD and Unix information. I already heard of Linux as a Unix for > PC. > > After looking around the FreeBSD website, i was conviced enough to try > it (hope i'm not a victim of a kind of marketing :] ) , so i read a > lot and downloaded a lot too. By now, i have the FreeBSD installed on a > 390 Mb partition, and still have to configure the Kernel, and i am > dealing with a "not inodes left" or something like that; but i have > made it with the handbook and faq files, and i hope i can make it to > the X11 with a desktop only by consulting the existing information > without asking nothing to the questions-list (of course i'm planing to > reinstall all in a bigger partition, hey, i'm learning). I must say to > the Documentation project team that they have made a very very good job > and i hope i can help the project in the future. > > What i found too, is that most of the people using FreeBSD, are network > administrators, webmasters, and things realted to use the FreeBSD as a > server, on serius jobs. So what about FreeBSD workstation? > > By now i'm installing FreeBSD on my home pc, and obviously planing to > use it as "home pc", and i don't doubt about the capabilities of > FreeBSD as a server, but i would really like to hear an opinion about > FreeBSD as standalone system. I already browsed the package collection > but haven't installed nothing yet (i'll get there soon). I saw some CAD > software, lots of games!, and a lot of another stuff. At least i saw > netscape so later i will post from FreeBSD. > > So i would like to now if there is anybody there happy with his (or > her) FreeBSD workstation. > > Greetings > Oscar Urquidy > Electronics Eng. student and musician. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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