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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Can I Run BSD Date: 11 May 1995 17:24:10 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3oth7q$96a@helena.MT.net> References: <3orpuo$qot@tierra.santafe.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <3orpuo$qot@tierra.santafe.edu>, <hodges@roadrunner.com> wrote: >I am not running a UNIX clone yet, and am trying to decide on one. I am >stuck between BSD and Linux. Which is better. Can Anyone help me? Neither one is 'better' to be completely honest. In the same way that both a Camero and a Mustang are both good cars (they are both fast, sexy, perform well, have some quirks that are sometimes annoying) the best way to compare them is to find out what people you know are running. That way when something doesn't make sense, you can go find your 'Chevy/FreeBSD' or your 'Ford/Linux' mechanic to come help you. If you've got both folks around, then ask them what they think. If you don't have anyone at all around, pick one of the two (FreeBSD! :-) and try it out for a couple weeks. If it doesn't work, switch to the other. The advantage you have is that running either one doesn't cost you anything but your time. Unfortunately neither Chevy nor Ford will give you that kind of a deal. :) >have a Zeos 486DX2 with 16 megs of RAM, a Soundblaster AWE32 sound card, >and a Fujitsu 520 meg hard drive. Can I run BSD without any problems? You shouldn't have *any* problems running FreeBSD on that hardware. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | work #: (406) 449-7662 | Loving life in God's country, the great state of home #: (406) 443-7063 | Montana.