From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 11:25: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2462537B404 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from syr.edu (syr.edu [128.230.1.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E9C43E9C for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (syru207-229.syr.edu [128.230.207.229]) by syr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23622 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:24:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: Subject: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:24:48 -0400 Message-ID: <001001c263f7$bd225150$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been doing a LOT of reading, and I can't seem to find anything resembling a clear answer. The one truth I've found is this, there are more 'stupid' Linux users than there are FreeBSD users. So I figured I'd ask this to a FreeBSD mailing list, as opposed to a Linux one. 1) What is the BIG difference between FreeBSD and Linux? Is it truly a 'big' difference, or do people just exaggerate the truth? 2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatibility' - will that allow me to use programs that were written on and for a Red Hat version of Linux? FreeBSD is what I know and love, but now I'm starting to use it as a desktop (KDE 3 / XFree86 4.2) and I just want to make sure that I'm not missing out on people's applications (home based) that seem to only be written for Linux. ~ Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message