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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!grail From: grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Giao Nguyen) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD... Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 14 Dec 1995 23:59:48 GMT Organization: ACM Student Machine Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4aqdpk$552@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4ao0f8$1qc@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4aodm3$gcj@exit.com> <4aq628$psa@ionews.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu NNTP-Posting-User: grail X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:6369 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30276 comp.os.linux.misc:75544 comp.os.linux.setup:32255 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10428 Christopher B. Browne (cbbrown@io.org) wrote: : I like what I've seen of FreeBSD; the installation scheme is fairly : good. If it took the best of the ideas from the various Linux package : tools, it could possibly "win" some time down the road. I agree with you. Coming from running Red Hat Linux, the installation of FreeBSD is by far a better scheme than Red Hat Linux (which I consider to be the *best* Linux installation out there). : The *feel* of FreeBSD is a little more "professional;" I'm not sure I : can readily explain that. I'm not sure it's really worth anything, : either. Well, there is this matter of FreeBSD being a *real* UNIX where Linux is not. : The downside to FreeBSD at this point is that a lot of the commercial : efforts have been going into Linux. If I call the Wingz folks, they : know about Linux. Likewise for Angoss. Likewise for quite a : variety of commercial providers that have been springing up. Commercial : products seem less available for FreeBSD, which is somewhat unfortunate. Hm...I disagree. There are some products that I can only find for FreeBSD (Netscape Commerce Server) and many products are unavailable for Linux simply due to rather kernel stabilities. Giao Nguyen