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From: cbbrown@io.org (Christopher B. Browne)
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...
Date: 14 Dec 1995 16:47:52 -0500
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In article <4aodm3$gcj@exit.com>, Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote:
>In article <4ao0f8$1qc@pell.pell.chi.il.us>, Orc <orc@pell.chi.il.us> wrote:
>>   Neither.
>>
>>   Flip a coin about which one you want to run, then run it.  If
>>you don't like it, you can always switch to the other, and if you're
>>particularly ambitious you can go and correct the things you don't
>>like about the one you choose.
>
>Hah.  You're just jealous.  FreeBSD 2.1 is the One True Operating System,
>and your recent hardware problems would never have happened had you been
>running it.

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.

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.

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.

I somehow think that Linux is probably more suitable for "new users;"
unfortunately that is most obviously expressed by the fact that there
are more "crappy new user books" on the bookshelves at bookstores.
-- 
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