From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 09:47:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17536 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17531 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA19306; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:47:25 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA22395; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:47:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:46:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Alvin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000101be17cd$be2b5d00$2cca15a5@mikhails> 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 On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Alvin wrote: >Hi > >I'm a newbie to Unix and I'd like to learn Unix. However, the software is >far too expensive for me. > >How similar is FreeBSD to commercial Unix? Will knowing FreeBSD help me in >using commercial Unix later on? FreeBSD comes from 4.4 BSD Lite which is about as unix as it gets. Knowing FreeBSD means you may have to step down a notch in quality when it comes time to use commercial unix. FreeBSD is unix. It just doesn't pay for the trademark. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message