From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 02:19:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01108 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01084 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA11131; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:18:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bob Weiner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional FAQ entry: How does FreeBSD compare to other UNIXes? In-Reply-To: <199807120111.SAA04164@wave.altrasoft.com> 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 Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Bob Weiner wrote: > I think that is one of the questions many people will immediately ask > but for which they will not know the answer. It would be good to produce > a table comparing FreeBSD with Linux, SCO, and Solaris, as well as Windows > potentially. > > A comparison between a Linux distribution and FreeBSD at the very least > would be helpful to a wide variety of people. [FAQ maintainer mode ON] I can't think of a way to do this in a fair manner. It would end up being a promotional item, which belongs as a Web page on it's own. The best comaprison I've seen comes from http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd/bsdvlin.htm. However, if you think you could do justice to it, I'd take a look at it. [FAQ maintainer mode OFF] Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message