From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 19:17:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01315 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:17:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.bc.rogers.wave.ca (smtp.bc.rogers.wave.ca [24.113.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01306 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wwolf@rogers.wave.ca) Received: from mail.bc.rogers.wave.ca ([24.113.32.4]) by smtp.bc.rogers.wave.ca with ESMTP id <701003-11638>; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 22:16:08 -0500 Received: from chimaera.ns.bc.rogers.wave.ca ([24.113.53.151]) by mail.bc.rogers.wave.ca with SMTP id <336142-12982>; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 22:16:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:17:29 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Broza To: Chris Carter cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux In-Reply-To: <35205201.623AA1D8@gte.net> 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 Hiya Aaron; regarding you question; you find alot people which either run *BSD ( FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD ) or Linux ( Red Hat Linux, Slackware 3.4, Debian etc. etc ) system. Currently all are good, But *BSD's are based after 4.4BSD UNIX well Linux is classified as POSIX OS. I used Red Hat Linux myself for some time, until a associate got me hooked on FreeBSD. Linux personally was designed for challenge hearted, kernals updates are released more, but drivers are not.. well *BSD's OS core of developers are spending more time on making it easy installation and releasing current drivers for hardware. Here are a couple of sites you can check.. http://www.freebsd.org <------ easy installation, for a new user to Unix. http://www.netbsd.org <------ installation challenge, once installed and reboot, your brought into single user mode, and have to change rc.conf using vi. (rc_configured="NO" to "YES") plus various other lines in rc.conf .. http://www.openbsd.org <------ same as a above http://www.linux.org <--- Installation varies, depending on linux OS. ( Red Hat Linux, Slackware 3.4, and debian are most common in use. ) I hope this helps, Good Luck.. Richard On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Chris Carter wrote: > Hello, my name is Aaron. I am attempting to set up a web server > using Unix and Apache Web Server software. I am entirely new to Unix, > and I do not know the advantages of any version of unix over another. > Could you please advise me to the differences/advantages of Linux vs. > FreeBSD for this application? Thank you. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message