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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!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!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. BSD Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:33:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4siq3g$3tl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sgt8v$31t@informer1.cis.mcmaster.ca> 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 derekj@immrc19 (Derek Jenkins) wrote: > I know that this has probably been bounced around > here a million times, but as a partially disgruntled > Linux user, I would like to know from current BSD > users why FreeBSD would be better for my PC-Based > UNIX system than Linux. If there is a FAQ that has > the anwers to this, could somebody point that out as well> Look at Dave Burgess' FAQ in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. He recently wrote here that it contains such a discussion. (I haven't checked this FAQ for rather long now.) If you tell us about the reasons for being disappointed by Linux, we might perhaps also be able to tell you whether FreeBSD might be better in this respect. -- 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. ;-)