From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:08:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29466 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id VAA33506; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:08:42 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id VAA29447; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:58:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Antoine Maartens cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Antoine Maartens wrote: >LS, > >I have three questions: > >(1) The difference between Linux & FreeBSD. Why choose one or the other? >(Do applications exchange as they are both Unix look a likes) This is very subjective. One point is that FreeBSD has only one main stable release whereas Linux has a half a dozen. >(2) Where can I get descriptions of the application listed in the FTP area >where all packages are listed On the website. Click on applications. http://www.freebsd.org/ >(3) What package to use for gui based office automation work. StarOffice is good. It is free for non-commercial use. There is also Applicaware which I hear is also good, but I have not tried it. Good luck. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message