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Date:      Tue, 06 Jan 1998 01:26:44 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        art2pres@spiritone.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Which to choose? 
Message-ID:  <199801060926.BAA27354@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 00:53:51 PST." <34B1F11F.84A8D899@spiritone.com> 

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>I am currently a student at Portland Community College in Portland
>Oregon.  I am a CS student and am very interested in setting up UNIX on
>my box at home.  I have looked around and am a little confused at the
>differences between the different 'free' flavors of UNIX out there.  For
>instance what would be the main advantages to selecting freeBSD over say
>Linux?  Is there a korne shell in freeBSD?
>
>I am a novice UNIX user and will taking some C courses that are UNIX
>based and would appreciate any comments or suggestions you can offer me.

   From a user's perspective, you should find that the systems have a
very similar user interface - most if not all of the shells available
for one system are also available for the other. FreeBSD is popular in
Portland - popular at Portland State (being used in some OS courses),
and with two of the FreeBSD Project's founders living in the suburbs.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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