From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 20:21:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29891 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29886 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02770; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:21:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > >From a long time user of Linux (favorite distribution is > Debian), and a newbie to FreeBSD, I'd have to say at this > point that I prefer Linux. That is without consideration > for ANY differences in the architecture or internals, and > purely from a user perspective. The things I'm having > problems with under FreeBSD (minicom, ppp, console behavior, > memory utilization, fvwm95, etc, etc) all work flawlessly > under Debian Linux. Because minicom and fvwm95 were written for linux and were ported/hacked to FreeBSD. Use what you like. If you like having toys and don't mind poor scalability & stability (Do you know any ftp.cdrom.com-sized Linux boxes?), then use Linux. If you want a serious _server_, use FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major