From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 04:22:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA10469 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from farlink.kmr.ll.mit.edu (FARLINK.LL.MIT.EDU [129.55.27.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA10464 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kmrmail.kmr.ll.mit.edu (kmrmail.kmr.ll.mit.edu [192.0.77.8]) by farlink.kmr.ll.mit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA01563 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 07:24:22 -0400 Received: from steve_home.kmr.ll.mit.edu ([192.0.74.111]) by kmrmail.kmr.ll.mit.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11431; Mon, 15 Apr 96 23:24:04+120 Message-Id: <31738249.16AF@kmrmail.kmr.ll.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:19:37 -1200 From: Steve Blackmon Organization: Raytheon X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD vs. Linux (Slakware) X-Url: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/freebsd.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I just ordered your Slakware CD, and then realized that you have chosen FreeBSD to run your server. I was wondering if I should have ordered FreeBSD instead? Do you have an opinion as to which is better? Here is some background/planned usage: I have a 166Mhz Pentium from Gateway with 32 MB of RAM and plenty of disk space for a complete install. I plan to install Unix (whichever on is best) on my D: drive which is a 500 MB partition on a 2.5GB drive. I am running Windows' 95. I do not have an direct Internet connection but plan to connect through a PPP line at my place of employment. I am a software engineer and will use this OS to do some X/Motif development. Given this information, which OS do you think I should choose? Thanks in advance, Steve Blackmon