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From: dustin@oss.spy.net (Dustin Sallings)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 30 Mar 1996 22:36:18 GMT
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: Prefferably someone technically proficient enough to actually
: list the right issues, but politically naieve enough to be a
: fool and publish the results...
Know what you mean, it should be personal preference, just get
out of it what you need. I used Linux for a few years, and just recently
switched to NetBSD. Besides just being different, the main thing I liked
about NetBSD over Linux is that the more inflated the Linux distributions
got, the more problems I found in them. The last time I installed Linux,
there were a LOT of programs missing (over a network ``install
everything'' installation which reported no errors). Things such as cat,
test, etc. were missing, and ps -aux dumped core. NetBSD I believe is
better for someone who's been using Unix for a while and knows what he
wants out of it (because he'll have to add it himself the way he wants),
while Linux is good for getting ideas, and toying with it. I still use
both, but I haven't installed FreeBSD on a machine here again. Mainly
because it won't run on the machine I want to install it on (flakey
486slc2/50 that won't even run Windows).
Just my opinions...
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