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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 27 May 1994 23:54:50 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2s618a$34t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es>, GARCIA VALDEARENAS <cdt94001@oasis.dit.upm.es> wrote: > Linux is faster than FreeBSD, but has a very poor network support. If Where do you get your numbers? Have you benchmarked Linux and FreeBSD on the same hardware? > Linux > supports graphics whithout X. Linux can execute many MS-DOS programs > using a MS-DOS emulator (exceptions are all MS-Windows programs). Linux > can execute all SCO binaries (so you can buy many programs for Linux) . ^^^ (I'm pretty sure this isn't true either, though it can execute some) The above are all true however except for the one mention. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Looking for a good job.