OSNews: From Linux to FreeBSD: A FreeBSD Review

“We’ve all heard the age old argument second only to the vi vs.
emacs religious wars: FreeBSD Vs Linux. As a long time linux user,
I decided that is was time I spent some time on the other side of
the fence to see if it was any greener. Oh, and by the way, vi
rules.

“My first experience with Linux was about 7 years ago. I decided
to try Linux after a failed attempt to install SCO Unix (eek…
really dodged a bullet there). I started with Slackware and over
the years I migrated through various other distributions before
finally settling down with Gentoo. I have been using Linux as my
main OS for about 2 or 3 years. With my background, I felt
reasonably confident that I could adapt well to a different unix
like operating system. I prefer the BSD license to the GPL, so I
saw some potential philosophical advantage in using BSD. For my
evaluation, I chose FreeBSD because after a cursory glance, it
appeared to have the best hardware support and appeared to be the
most popular…”

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