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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Samuel Ng wrote:

> I am new using Solaris 2.5 for X86. But it is not stable in PPP 
> connection and the sysio is not very well. Some one said that FreeBSD is 
> letter than Linix. Can you please tell me what advantage of FreeBSD 
> compare with Linix. I really want to find a good Unix run on x86.

Personally:

1.  Compact, single distribution.
2.  Rock-hard stability.

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http://www.freebsd.org under Search.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major