From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 14:12:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16607 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16582 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:12:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21870 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:11:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa12281; 21 Mar 97 17:11 EST Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:11:37 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Bob Dole cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <33331961.B21@eau.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Bob Dole wrote: > Hi, I plan on changing to UNIX and I wonder wether I should take Linux or > FreeBSD... > Both seem to be an excellent choice, so you can't say one is better than > the other. But in what are they different, in what is each specialized? > Ive used Freebsd, Linux and SCO. Of the 3 Ive found device driver support for new stuff faster with linux. But otherwise, FreeBSD has been the fastest and most robust, and the support (via this mail list and others) is the best of the 3 as well. (In my opinion- no flames please!)