[thelist] Linux vs. FreeBSD

Charlie Llewellin charliel at infohwy.com
Mon Jul 9 11:57:20 CDT 2001


Personally, if you do not plan on usng this as any kind of desktop machine,
just, web, mail, etc, I would say FreeBSD might be slightly more reliable.

Command-line commands are, in my experience, pretty much identical between
the two OSes, at least for web server admin stuff that I do.

Charlie

>      I finally brought another line into my home to run a web/ftp/email
> server (for personal use) and I'm currently deciding which OS to run. I
> want to play around and get some admin/config skills under my belt, but
> it'll be more of a side-hobbie than anything else. I've narrowed my choice
> to either Linux (to see what I'm missing out on) or FreeBSD (I'd like to
> eventually migrate to MacOSX). I'm planning on running Apache, mod_perl,
> etc. (everything open source).





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