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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!news1.mpcs.com!zdc!super.zippo.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!nntp.sprintmail.com!nntp.sprintmail.com!news@sprintmail.com From: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@denverweb.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Free UNIX OS for Win32 PC Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:34:57 -0600 Organization: What, me organized? Lines: 21 Message-ID: <33D035E1.3E4D7A47@denverweb.net> References: <33CB85F7.D6637551@internetwis.com> <pk9vi2c75cf.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> <33cd8ce8.0@d2o1.telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sdn-ts-002coaurop16.dialsprint.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44661 comp.os.linux.misc:185653 root wrote: > > Chris Gray (grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be) wrote: > : In article <33CB85F7.D6637551@internetwis.com> AbrAxaS <abraxas@internetwis.com> writes: > > : I am currently running an Intel/Win32 PC with FAT16. Can someone > : recommend a free UNIX style OS that will run on my system? I don't > : really want to mess with the FAT, but creating a new partition for the > : OS would not be a problem. Linux and FreeBSD seem to be options, but > : maybe you have better ideas? Suggestions would be most welcome as I am > : anxious to *experiment* with the UNIX OS. > Both are outstandiong. Linux has lots more documentation and information available, FreeBSD has better networking code, imo. I use both, Linux for my workstation, FreeBSD for my net servers. Since you are just starting out, I would say go with linux. After you get a few months experiance, definatly try FreeBSD, and learn the various differences in the OS's. Bkm