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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!news.greatbasin.net!usenet From: Eric Blood <eblood@cs.unr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <->Linux - The Answer Found!! Date: 24 Sep 1995 18:41:47 GMT Organization: Great Basin Internet Services, Reno, NV Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4448pb$fnr@news.greatbasin.net> References: <441s6j$gdr@homer.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: winky.reno.nv.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:441s6j$gdr@homer.alpha.net drig@earth.execpc.com (David Rudder) wrote: >Hi, > I'm a Linux user, primarily, installing FreeBSD for the first >time. So, I read the Newsgroups. Seems like there are a lot of people >asking which is better. I had the same questions. I've found the only >answer to this question. Install both. You see, you actually learn >which is better (for you), and you learn two intentionally different >Un*x's, and you also get to use that funky bootloader :) I lot of people tell me "Linux is better" when I tell them I'm running FreeBSD. However, when I ask if they have ever run FreeBSD, they say "no." I have run both and prefer FreeBSD over Linux for many reasons. My two cents... Eric Blood eblood@cs.unr.edu