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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux??? Date: 31 Jan 1994 04:56:37 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2ii325$1sj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>, Marc WANDSCHNEIDER <storm@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote: >In article <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com>, Brian T. Hovey <bhovey@crl.com> wrote: >>Are there any major differences between Linux and FreeBSD? What are the >>advantages of one over the other? .... > > however, linux has 100,000,000,000,000 people using it, whereas > the *bsd os's tend have a bit less. therefore, if you're a high > maintenance requireing person [ie, you get stuck more than somebody > who's been doing this a long time], it's probably a little easier > to deal with, since they have about 100,000 texinfo and other > documents that describe various things about the os. However, if you have a local unix guru chances are very high that he could help you with a *BSD problem since they are BSD systems, where Linux is more of a hibrid of many different systems. Because *BSD is BSD, there is a plethora of commercial documentation for it as well, while the Linux documentation is mostly in the texinfo files described above. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.