From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 21: 3:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D250537B4D7 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b094.otenet.gr [195.167.121.222]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9H41ne20370; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:01:50 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9GJ3XK09250; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:03:33 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:03:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Pierre Robidoux Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choice of OS Message-ID: <20001016220331.B626@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from pierre_robidoux@radio-canada.ca on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:36:37PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:36:37PM -0400, Pierre Robidoux wrote: > Hi, > > At BSDi web site, they offer 3 OS. (BSD/OS, FreeBSD and Slackware/Linux). ... > Why paying the price of BSD/OS if FreeBSD is the same ? > (I thing that there is a difference ... but ... what is that difference?) In some environment, it is common to prefer a solution that has a commercial vendor behind it. There you can go BSD/OS if you prefer it. Not that BSD/OS is infefior to FreeBSD. Each of them has it's own merits and disadvantages. > Why should I buy FreeBDI instead of a Linux distribution ? Because the little red devil is way more beautiful than the penguin. Because if you learn working in one BSD, then all of them will seem similar to you. I've worked with both FreeBSD and OpenBSD at home, and have seen a NetBSD installation. I feel that I can install any of the three on my home box alone. Try doing that with the zillions of Linux distributions. As the saying goes: FreeBSD is a complete operating system. Linux is just a Unix-like kernel surrounded by all the GNUs of the world. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message