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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux??? Message-ID: <hastyCKIz2y.GxG@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <2ii325$1sj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 03:01:45 GMT Lines: 38 In article <2ii325$1sj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >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. Having a large number of texinfo files is not necessarily that good :-) It may be indicative of serious problems both architecturally and/or programmatically. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X