Subj : linux vs *BSD
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Wed May 28 2003 06:25 pm

 Hello !

26 May 03 20:01, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Francois Thunus:

 FT>> It all comes down to a matter of personnal taste. Coming from
 FT>> slackware, you would have no problem to adapt to any BSD (as with
 FT>> any unix, some assembly is required :-))

 RJT> Personal taste?  Hm,  I'd have thought that there were other things to
 RJT> consider,  with those...
You are right. Each of those has stronger points and weaker points. You may 
want to review them all and see which one best fits your needs.

What I meant was that unless one of them has a feature that you desperately 
need and the others don't, each is as good as the next one.

Just like RedHat is as good as SuSE or Slackware or Debian.

At the club I have run Slackware, RedHat, then SuSE, and now I'm running 
Debian. It is of course based on differences between the distributions, but the 
fact that I am running one today doesn't mean the others are bad. In fact, as 
the club's need evolved, and the distribution, so has our choice of 
distribution.

The same if true for the *BSD. They are all neck to neck with features, even 
though they remain focused on what made them start in the first place.
I remember reading a good article describing the strong points of each of them, 
but of course I can't find the url right now.
www.unix.smthng ?
anybody ?


 Francois Thunus

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