From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 21:25:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA15446 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:25:02 -0800 (PST) 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 VAA15437 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA28323; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:24:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:24:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Charlie Compton cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux In-Reply-To: <328BA55D.6FC@is.ups.com> 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 Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Charlie Compton wrote: > Can you tell me if FreeBSD is better than Linux and why? Charlie I don't know. I know why *I* like FreeBSD better than Linux: . one distribution instead of one million . centrilized support & development . stable More and other people would have other opinions. Do you know of any Linux boxes that take 1200 anonymous FTP users, web and still retain interactive response AND stay up for more than 10 minutes? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major