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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!brian.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.aatech.com!not-for-mail From: whiteside@acm.org (Donald Whiteside) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 19:51:11 GMT Organization: Tequila Research Lines: 22 Message-ID: <33c78d66.20701692@news.aatech.com> References: <01bc8d33$3f7a4f00$6870d3c6@einstein> <33C4F625.41C67EA6@together.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: client74.aatech.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.01/32.397 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44306 On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:48:05 -0400, null <null@together.net> wrote: >Linux tends to get all of the video game support, so I guess you could >say it's good for playing video games. Not that it's not capable of >running as server (and I'm sure many people use it as such), but it >tends to be unstable. Let's not turn this into a pissing contest, shall we? The only emperical observation I can make about FreeBSD vs Linux is that the networking code appears to be somewhat more robust in FreeBSD. The most practical observation I can make is that the only thing that's probably going to matter to you is how much support and resource you have access to. Like the FreeBSD team and writeups and things and maybe know some people running it who you can turn to? It's for you. Know a bunch of Linux people? Maybe that's your path, unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool rebel like some of us :-) The best observation I can make is that the BSD Daemon logo is _much_ cooler than that Penguin :-)