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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!serval!owl.csrv.uidaho.edu!129.101.119.220!nawaz921 From: nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux??? Date: 06 Feb 1994 13:46:30 GMT Organization: The Moscow Underground Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <NAWAZ921.94Feb6054630@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <2igljt$dvc@crl2.crl.com> <2ihgut$2oq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <2ii325$1sj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Reply-To: nawaz921@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lava.cs.uidaho.edu In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 31 Jan 1994 04:56:37 GMT In article <2ii325$1sj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > > 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. I'm in the University of Idaho, where most of the BSD systems I've seen are old hpApollo Domain/OS 4.3BSD machines (v 10.4 or something). NO one uses them anymore, since they are slower and less stable than the new (fast! improved! free!) hp-ux machines (hp 9000/715s), which are pretty much SVR4ish. Students are either running dos, linux or OS/2 on their PCs. I think I'm the only one running FreeBSD, and I installed it on Friday night, and it's not on my machine, but on a friend's (I told him it'd be just for a while, until Linux pl15/1.0 comes out) (I don't own a computer). My impression: I like it. It has the feel of a real operating system, not something clobbered together like linux (I've used that for over 3 months now). A few man pages are missing (init, for one), but it looks great. now, if I could figure out how to get slip working, and find kerberos... -- GCS d? -p+ c+++ l++ u++ e+ m+ s-/--- n--- h* f+ g+ w+ t+ r- y? Please post to this newsgroup, as I don't get to read mail all that often. - nawaz921@uidaho.edu - who is still costing the net hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars every time he decides to post