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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 13 Jul 1996 20:25:27 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4s8kfm$qr@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, <nadeem@yorku.ca> wrote:
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
A case of bilocation?
>although both are available free of charge from the net, most home users
>seem to be running linux, but i have not seen any "major" company/isp use
>linux. on the other hand there are some isp's [like internex online -
>io.org] that use freebsd.
As a generalisation, this may be true - however, I am aware of "major"
companies and ISPs that use Linux, and many home users that use
FreeBSD, and they all seem to be perfectly happy with their decision.
As they are both very good systems, the only sensible way to go about
this is to look at the support available (do all your friends run
Linux? Is your uncle/next door neighbour/consultant a seasoned BSD
pro?). If that doesn't solve your dilemma, why not try them out and
see which one you prefer? It's not as if it's going to cost you a lot
of money...
>ps emailed replies would be appreciated since i am hopelessly slow in
>reading news
Hmm. You can find the time to post on "controversial" topics but not
to read all the replies that your posting generates? Some people
might regard that as rather impolite.
>pps i posted this message to the linux.misc group last week, and got
>some interesting replies, hoping for the same from the bsd group.
Sorry if this message was not quite what you expected...
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James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/