From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 01:27:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA20727 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA20707 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:27:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA27354; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:26:44 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801060926.BAA27354@implode.root.com> To: art2pres@spiritone.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which to choose? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 00:53:51 PST." <34B1F11F.84A8D899@spiritone.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 01:26:44 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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