From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 17:41:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03BE14C34 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21392; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:01:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdY21390; Tue Sep 7 11:01:50 1999 Message-ID: <048601bef983$1556e1c0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Rick Knebel" Cc: References: <19990906193218.A832@rknebel.uplink.net> Subject: Re: FreeBsd again again Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:48:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The linux folk may not see it as an advantage, but the facts that FreeBSD is generally regarded as significantly more stable than the linuxes, the kernels aren't changed every second day, and at least some of the docs are comprehensible are real good features in favour of it as far as I'm concerned. If you are into the hype surrounding Redhat et al, the constant changes, the unintelligible docs, and the totally committed fanatic attitude of most linux geeks then one of the countless flavors of linux may be more suited to you. > I guess before I make the jump I have one more questions. > I know nobody has a crystal ball, but will freebsd survive. > I now Linux has alot of support, but how is the support for freebsd as far as development of the OS is concerned. > > Thanks > Again > Rick > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message