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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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!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: FreeBSD or Linux (with Win95)? Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:33:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5bu7g9$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5bsvup$cdq@netnews.upenn.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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34275 omar@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Omar Manuar) wrote: > I am interested in opinions about choosing between either FreeBSD or > Linux. In particular, I am curious about > > 1. ease of setup > 2. peaceful coexistence with Windows 95 > 3. getting introduced to some unix things like Perl > 4. being able to port LaTeX files easily to a "real" unix machine For all of this, both systems should be fine with you. The peaceful coexistence with Winlos^H^H^Hdows95 is btw. rather a problem for the latter: if you install the Unix first, and Win95 afterwards, it will happily clobber the bootselector, since it is silently ignoring any other potential operating system of the world. So if you do it the other way round, you'll have it easier. -- 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. ;-)