Re: [newbie] About other unices

1999-08-18 Thread John May
] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:10 AM Subject: [newbie] About other unices Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do

[newbie] About other unices

1999-08-17 Thread Lorenzo Jimenez
Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps

Re: [newbie] About other unices

1999-08-17 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I hate to say this. FreeBSD has even worse hardware support. On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other

Re: [newbie] About other unices

1999-08-17 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). I like FreeBSD, and I'm using it on one of my computers.

Re: [newbie] About other unices

1999-08-17 Thread Jeanette Russo
Subject: [newbie] About other unices Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org