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From: c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com (Perry Grieb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,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: 19 Dec 1995 14:56:13 GMT
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In article <30CDA86D.59E2B600@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> writes:
|> Alan Chan wrote:
|> > 
|> > Hi guys,
|> > 
|> >         Hope someone could give me some information.
|> >         Which is better? Linux or FreeBSD?
|> 
|> No!!! Not again!!!!!!
|> 
|> 	-mi

With choices like this, you can't go wrong.  This is a win/win
situation.  I've had linux installed for a year now (and run
1.2.13) and like it alot.  I played around with linux before
that, primarily just to see what all the noise was about.
Now I have a FreeBSD 2.1 CD on order.  I'll blow away the OS/2
partition and see how much FreeBSD I can squeeze onto it.  Then
I'll know.  But I won't tell anyone.

Some of the questions you need to answer for yourself are:
(1) What unix clone are the people I associate with using?
(2) Will they be able to help me and provide some support?
(3) How much software is available on the net and where?
--and maybe--
(4) How often will I feel the need to upgrade to stay current?
(5) Will it be a personal machine or a network server machine?
These last two are some things I hope to learn more about in
my own evaluation.

If you are new to unix, your best bet is to go with the answer
to question #1 until you feet are wet.  Then strike out on your
own.

Perry Grieb
c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com
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