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From: sjlai@will.ct.monash.edu.au (Simon Lai)
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
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Date: 14 Nov 1995 23:13:46 GMT
Organization: Monash University
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Steve McLaughlin (mclaughl@bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>,
: Jack Hou <hou@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
[Question about Linux vs. FreeBSD deleted]
: 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
I'm not sure what software you are trying to compile, but I've rarely
had a problem trying to compile software for FreeBSD. Generally if it
comes with GNU configure, I just run that, it configures itself and
compiles without a problem. Some older software can present problems,
but if it's older it generally has support for a BSD-type system
anyhow(?). FreeBSD also has a lot of prebuilt packages, Linux
has a similar system.
Choosing something because "more people have it" is not necessarily
the best way of making a choice. I would choose the tool
that does the job best, whether it be FreeBSD, Linux, etc ... .
Simon
PS I run both FreeBSD and Linux which helps when comparing the two.
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