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#! rnews 1630 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Dale Phillips <dphillip@tabfs.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free OS for CS students Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:11:30 -0800 Organization: TAB Products Lines: 28 Message-ID: <313640B2.7101@tabfs.com> References: <4h383i$t0d@online.dct.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mod-ca2-15.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Feb 29 4:12:20 PM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) bleau@dct.com wrote: > > Is there any Free OS out there that a Computer Science student should consider > using. FreeBSD of Linux. Both are popular but which would be more > advantageous to use, if there is one over the other. Linux is POSIX compliant > but BSD is BSD. What to do? It doesn't really matter. But knowing what your goal is would help. Now the following IMHO costs only what you paid for it. "nada" Run windows apps on unix? use Linux. Heavy duty networking use FreeBSD. Ease of install use linux. Create a web farm use FreeBSD. Personally I chose FreeBSD because I want to learn the Berkeley variant of unix. The more I play with it the better I like it. I also run SCO and I can't beleive I have gone as long as I have with out a compiler! sco doesn't come with one... There is more "user level books" for Linux - bur BSD came out of the acedmic comminity and the reference from O'Rielly on BSD4.4 is good.