From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 11:57:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26415 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns01.ops.usa.net (dns01.ops.usa.net [204.68.24.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA26407 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4097 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 1997 19:00:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 4089 invoked from network); 31 Jul 1997 19:00:58 -0000 Received: from ld44-184.lon.compuserve.com (HELO neverknowx) (195.232.23.184) by dns01.ops.usa.net with SMTP; 31 Jul 1997 19:00:58 -0000 Message-ID: <33E0DE33.16EA@usa.net> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:49:23 +0100 From: Andy Reply-To: andrew_lim@usa.net Organization: - X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Almost conviced hpc types Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ello there, Listen I have a version of Linux I have been trying to get up and running without success, since windows seems to want a certain amount of partition it's basiclly not leting me, well how does freeBSD compare to linux when it comes to compatabilty of software, flexiblility and anything else you think is relevent ? I will try linux and BSD but can you tell me just how it compares to linux ?? One last thing, is it safe to delete a partition without risking data within ?? Cheers a lot