From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 11:37:56 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 00BF937B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E94F043E7B for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8OIbqNT012753 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h63n1fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.162.63]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA04027 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 86259 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Sep 2002 18:37:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:50 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list Message-ID: <20020924183750.GA86228@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: MET , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001001c263f7$bd225150$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001001c263f7$bd225150$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:48PM -0400, MET wrote: > 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 That is just because there are more Linux users than FreeBSD users overall. > 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? It depends on what level you look at. The internals of the kernel is quite different between Linux and FreeBSD for example, and the development model has some significant differences, but from the viewpoint of a normal user there isn't much of a difference. Some details differ but most things are the same, or at least very similar. This is true (to varying degrees) of all Unix variants. From a users point of view most things are quite similar between them, but some details are different. > > 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? With the exceptions of device drivers and things like that, yes. > > 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. Most Linux applications should run fine on FreeBSD. Some exceptions undoubtedly exist but those are indeed exceptions rather than the rule. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message