From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 14 14:49:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20880 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20872 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:49:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-110-172.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.110.172]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10122; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:49:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36C752C5.3B6A137D@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:48:37 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Warkentin CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newuser References: <36C7508A.C6B9505E@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Warkentin wrote: > > Hello, I was wondering how freebsd compares to Linux, and what > advantages freebsd has over Linux? I heard freebsd has better > compatiblity...so what are your thoughts on that? Also, are the > commands the same as Linux? Does freebsd come with a mail server like > PINE in Linux? > > Thanks for you help Hi FreeBSD has linux emulation. Linux do not have FreeBSD emulation :-) What it mean is that FreeBSD run most of the linux programs around. Also, FreeBSD has "the ports collection", which is a huge collection of software. You browse it and you install what you like. The command are mostly the same. I don'think that PINE is a server: I think it's a mail reader. FreeBSD come with a mail server and has a reputation of being rock-stable. Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][French piss me off - Cartman, South Park] [The FreeBSD User Guide][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message