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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!sirius.physik.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 4 Nov 1995 07:38:11 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 26 Message-ID: <47f593$oiq@fu-berlin.de> References: <47e58g$d7r@over.mhv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) X-Access: 16 17 18 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Yves-Chandler Eynard (yves@mnhv.net) wrote: : I am currently running linux (as I have for about 3 or 4 years) and it has : been suggested I would be better off with FreeBSD. : So, I am looking for a bit of advice, such as: : Is it really worth making the switch? : What are the advantages/disadvantages of switch? : How large is the learning curve, and more importantly, which is system is : better to know? there's no real answer - the only way to find out which is better for you is to try it out - i tried it last year after two years linux (i still like it too) - and i'm very happy with it -> thus if you have some time - find an empty partition and install FreeBSD on it - if you don't have time and are happy with linux - stay at linux t _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____