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osOpinion: Let’s Get More Educated About FreeBSD

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 20, 1999

Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link.

“If you asked me four years ago about FreeBSD, I would have
said, “what is FreeBSD”, and so would have almost everyone. But, as
Linux increases in popularity, so does FreeBSD. Now almost any
“UNIX person” you ask has at the very least, heard of it and if you
ask a Linux user, especially a hardcore Linux user, they have there
own distasteful opinion of it.”

“Linux users complain that FreeBSD doesn’t support as much
hardware as Linux does. This hardware would be unneeded on a
server. As I see it, Linux is for desktop workstations that rely on
sound and video, where FreeBSD is for high volume servers and
desktop workstations in a business environment.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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