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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.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!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!ratatosk.yggdrasil.com!news From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux (with Win95)? Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:09:07 -0800 Organization: Lu Consulting Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32E63BA3.12A36D53@lucon.org> References: <5bsvup$cdq@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ocean.lucon.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.28 i586) To: Omar Manuar <omar@pender.ee.upenn.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34427 Omar Manuar wrote: > > This is a newbie question, so please bear with me! > > 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 Linux can mount VFAT used by Windows 95 and VFAT32 is in alpha. I am not sure if xxxBSD can do that. > 3. getting introduced to some unix things like Perl > 4. being able to port LaTeX files easily to a "real" unix machine > I think both Linux and xxxBSD are very good. I just happen to like Linux. Linux has SMP and real kernel based pthread. We also have MMX in our assembler, although xxxBSD can get it too. But NFS in xxxBSD is better. H.J.