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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD - have an faq Date: 14 Jul 1996 09:12:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4sadmf$fd5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4s9l9o$d9t@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nadeem@yorku.ca wrote: > i did not even start to read this newsgroup until i posted my question > i had no idea this was an oft discussed topic. That's the problem of many people. You should really first start to read a group before posting. > if this is usch an FAQ, then perhaps an FAQ should be compiled about > the 2 systems, giving different opinions, and next time a newcomer > like me asks such a question, s/he can be redirected to the FAQ. That's basically impossible. You won't be able to come up with something people will agree to. That's due to the very dynamic nature how all these systems evolve. If you write today that ``FooZoolix doesn't support The Great Mamboo wizzbang drives.'', this will already be wrong tomorrow. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)