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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech2!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bctel.net!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) 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: 17 Nov 1995 11:19:46 -0800 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 19 Message-ID: <48in8iINN1v9@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48gk8o$chc@pell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:28025 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9255 comp.unix.advocacy:11283 comp.unix.misc:19628 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8877 In article <48gk8o$chc@pell.com>, Orc <orc@pell.com> wrote: >In article <489kuu$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. > > Ask your technically knowledgable friends which they run. Ask >yourself who you'd rather ask for help when the machine doesn't >work properly, then find out what she's running and use it. FreeBSD >and Linux are close enough to being the same thing so that you won't >notice any difference 99% of the time. I can't even believe that there are FreeBSD vs. Linux threads. Duh. This is one of those rare times when I have to put purely UNIX postings into a kill filter. -- I have taken all the Gates out of my computer, and it still works!