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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu!alex From: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Switching From Linux to FreeBSD Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:19:03 GMT Organization: Phred Networking Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3g0dsn$7ol@dagny.galt.com> References: <3fvdhg$34i@myrddin.imat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > But I'd like to know.... is there anyone else here who's made the switch > from Linux to FreeBSD, and if so, are you glad you did? I made the switch from Linux (0.95) to 386bsd (0.1) almost three years ago now (three years in may), but I think that it was so long ago that saying the switch was worth it isn't really important to you now (since both platforms have changed greatly). > How 'bout the availability of utilities and programs for FreeBSD? I'm > familiar with the archive sites for Linux stuff, but don't really know > where the major FreeBSD archives are, other than FreeBSD.cdrom.com. I > didn't see much there except the FreeBSD source and OS itself. Does the > FreeBSD community have archive sites on the order of Linux's > sunsite.unc.edu site? Look on freebsd.cdrom.com in /pub/FreeBSD/packages. Tons of precompiled stuff there. > I love learning new things and fiddling with UNIX... do you think > switching to FreeBSD would be a good move for me in light of the above > discussion? Sounds like it makes sense, esp if you want to learn about BSD administration, etc. alex