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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!torn!news.hcl.com!usenet From: Derek Browne <yu100087@yorku.ca> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:47:59 -0600 Organization: Digital Logic Solutions Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32E2A49F.60A9C4F2@yorku.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp7.hcl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.10 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153143 comp.os.linux.networking:65454 comp.os.linux.setup:92929 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5641 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1946 Mike Yorke wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm somewhat new to UNIX but I'm becoming quite an enthusiast. I have > played a bit with Linux and I'm pretty pleased with it. However, I'm > always interested in other "clones" out there and I was wondering how > they stackup against each other. For instance, how about BSD? Any > thoughts? > > Mike I have been playing with Linux for about a year now and love it. I have recently dedicated another machine (386DX) to FreeBSD just to see how it compares. Hmmm. I like the FreeBSD but installation was about 6million time harder. I went through the installation about 50 times and I found that if I entered the exact same information I never got the same results twice. I am still not sure how I finally got it up and running! FreeBSD (2.1.6) has more of the unix feel but I really haven't played with it long enough yet to give an educated response. Suffice it to say, make sure you can put aside a lot of time to install and have nothing else on the machine. This may seem like unfair criticism but I am not a complete dummy and it was a battle for me. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dj Browne yu100087@yorku.ca