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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 2 Sep 1995 20:18:36 GMT Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 31 Message-ID: <42ae6s$c6e@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <427lu4$cn8@felix.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:982 comp.os.linux.advocacy:19983 In article <427lu4$cn8@felix.junction.net>, Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote: >For people with no BSD experience, FreeBSD is much better to start with. >I have tried FreeBSD, Linux, and BSDI's BSD/OS. They are different but I You haven't listed NetBSD ... if you haven't _tried_ it, then how can you say that FreeBSD is better for those with no "BSD" experience? Face it ... if you know one UNIX-like OS, you more or less know them all. I've used a zillion UNIX and UNIX-like variants, and, for the most part, they're pretty similar. >If you need commercial software, then use whichever O/S supports the >applications you need. FreeBSD can run many commercial apps compiled for >BSDI, Linux has many commercial apps available, both FreeBSD and Linux >can run commercial apps compiled for SCO, FreeBSD has an alpha version of >a Linux environment that will run commercial Linux apps. For the record, NetBSD has SVR4, SCO, BSDI, and (fully working) Linux binary compatibility. I think I remember hearing somewhere that FreeBSD has ported NetBSD's SCO emulation and is using it now rather that the one they originally had .. *chuckle*. I've personally run WordPerfect for SCO and FrameMaker for SVR4/i386, as well as the Netscape browsers for BSD/OS and Linux, and N games and other binary packeges under the Linux emulation. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939