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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD (NOT a religious question!) Date: 18 May 1995 17:30:58 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3pg08i$qdg@helena.MT.net> References: <coveD8qwsL.Mvq@netcom.com> <MICHAELV.95May17222030@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <MICHAELV.95May17222030@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <coveD8qwsL.Mvq@netcom.com> cove@netcom.com (Cove) writes: > > I have no intent of starting another long running thread on this. I > just have a few quick questions: > > I am running linux now, but I'm considering switching over to BSD. > Reason being is that I'd like to learn a more widely used OS, no just > a PC based one. Could BSD give me this kind of experience over Linux? > >In *MY* experience, yes, NetBSD could DEFINITELY do this for you. >FreeBSD also, but to a lesser extent (no offense -- I'm not saying >FreeBSD is a lesser OS). No offense intended, but why do you consider NetBSD a more widely used OS vs. FreeBSD? Obviously there are no numbers to compare, but I would suspect there are more total users using FreeBSD than NetBSD, and both of them are surpassed by Linux. However, the *BSD's have the advantage of being enough like a lot of other commercial OS's that 'BSD' is more widely used. I'm in total agreement that NetBSD runs on more platforms than FreeBSD, but *most* of those platforms (not all by any means) are for older legacy hardware that is not used much anymore, hence one of the reasons NetBSD is the perfect OS for them. Putting NetBSD on this older hardware breaths new life into it. 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.