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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov!mclaughl From: mclaughl@bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steve McLaughlin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 14 Nov 1995 18:50:54 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <48aoee$j59@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27026 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8739 comp.unix.advocacy:10895 comp.unix.misc:19431 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8830 In article <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>, Jack Hou <hou@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> wrote: >Hello, > >I am choosing between Linux and FreeBSD for my home PC. Can anyone please >tell me the difference between the two? Which one is more stable? >Which one is easier to install and maintain? How many applications >can each operating system run? Is there something that Linux can do >and FreeBSD can't do or vice versa? Any answer is greately >appreciated. Thanks in advance! > >Jack >hou@cs.ucla.edu It depends on whether you perfer BSD to SV. If it doesn't matter, I'd choose Linux only because it has a bigger base. We have a few PCs' around here running FreeBSD (mostly project servers) and trying to install freeware on them is usually a pain. There's never any FreeBSD platform option to choose from when installing so one has to choose a BSDish platform and start tweaking. Steve