Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:52:46 +0000 (GMT) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: James Hicks <ytwok_karate@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity Message-ID: <20030110064747.T31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <F141Ud9mTP2vZXqimrM00000d34@hotmail.com>
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There have been many long discussions about all your questions. A good starting point to get all the answers you need is the FreeBSD homepage www.freebsd.org . And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself. Have fun! Uli. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, James Hicks wrote: > To whom it may concern, > My name is James. I'm a junior college graduate with an A.S. degree in > Computer Applications. I took a class in UNIX about a year ago. The os we > used was Mandrake Linux. I've learned to like Red Hat and have version 8.0 > on my home machine. I have been doing a lot of reading in magazines like > pcmagazine and sought info online using sources like the freebsd homepage, > zdnet, cnet, etc. I'm hearing alot of your UNIX os. I have a few questions > about the system. First of all, is freebsd a real UNIX? By that I'm asking > whether or not there is real UNIX code in it or is it a clone just like > linux is? Second, what type of file system does it use? Does it have a > journaling one like ext3? Do UNIX systems require any kind of defrag? I was > told by my UNIX instructor that freebsd had hardware recognition trouble. Is > this true and if so has it been fixed? I have also read that a lot of > sysadmins are nervous of putting mission critical apps on a enterprise linux > system and prefer to use freebsd. What is the problem that I'm hearing that > linux has? Do you believe the berkeley system to have code that has better > stability than the GNU systems? I look forward to your reply. Thanks > > James Hicks > ytwok_karate@hotmail.com > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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