From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 22:04:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04372 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns0.iticom.net (root@[208.139.225.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA04365 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@iwebb.com) Received: from iwebb.com by ns0.iticom.net ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 05:02:02 +000 Message-ID: <35B50597.E93249A@iwebb.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:18:15 -0500 From: Support Reply-To: trouble@webfyre.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WM CHUNG CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd and linux References: <01bdb529$93e46f70$17c352ca@silicon> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------AE883447B078D74EB724B579" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------AE883447B078D74EB724B579 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WM CHUNG wrote: > HELLO!I know that both FreeBSD and Linux are UNIX like free > distributed OSes. Could you tell me the main differences between > them?Best regards! Hrmmm good question, well from this point of view, FreeBSD seems to be slightly better, dont get me wrong I run both........ linux seems to have slightly better hardware support, for things like SMP and newer Adaptec SCSI controllers and things like that, yet FreeBSD seems more secure, more stable and better at managing memory... though it seems there are alot of new apps flying about that seem to be slightly linux specific, ive not had much if any problems compiling them under FreeBSD, and it seems though i hate to say it, there are so many distributions to choose from each different in its own way... i feel its dividing the linux community slightly, ie linux some distros use libc, while others use the new glibc, if you also look around youll see less mentions of exploits in the FreeBSD security community, dont let it scare you, or give you a false sense of security though.... I would have to say both are good, yet Id give freebsd stable branch the edge.... but I will say this, either is good.... Im an old linux avid, who after using it for years has switched to FreeBSD, and every computer but one that I manage and control has FreeBSD on it now, even the internet servers that I run... there is still though one hold out left which is making the move in a week or two, leaving just my one linux box....!!!there also seems to be alot more documentation and HOWTOs for linux, yet its been around slightly longer... Id give both a whirl, decide for ones self, this is just my opinion.. but ill be staying with freebsd KerbeRus --------------AE883447B078D74EB724B579 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit WM CHUNG wrote:

HELLO!I know that both FreeBSD and Linux are UNIX like free distributed OSes. Could you tell me the main differences between them?Best regards!

Hrmmm good question, well from this point of view, FreeBSD seems to be slightly better, dont get me wrong I run both........ linux seems to have slightly better hardware support, for things like SMP and newer Adaptec SCSI controllers and things like that, yet FreeBSD seems more secure, more stable and better at managing memory... though it seems there are alot of new apps flying about that seem to be slightly linux specific, ive not had much if any problems compiling them under FreeBSD, and it seems though i hate to say it, there are so many distributions to choose from each different in its own way... i feel its dividing the linux community slightly, ie linux some distros use libc, while others use the new glibc, if you also look around youll see less mentions of exploits in the FreeBSD security community, dont let it scare you, or give you a false sense of security though.... I would have to say both are good, yet Id give freebsd stable branch the edge.... but I will say this, either is good.... Im an old linux avid, who after using it for years has switched to FreeBSD, and every computer but one that I manage and control has FreeBSD on it now, even the internet servers that I run... there is still though one hold out left which is making the move in a week or two, leaving just my one linux box....!!!there also seems to be alot more documentation and HOWTOs for linux, yet its been around slightly longer... Id give both a whirl, decide for ones self, this is just my opinion.. but ill be staying with freebsd

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