On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, River Tarnell
<river@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk> wrote:
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Aryeh Gregor:
> If the reason for using a second OS at all is user familiarity, why would
> FreeBSD be any better than Solaris?
because many of the things Linux users are familiar with (particular commands,
arguments, etc) are also present in FreeBSD, but not in Solaris.
And additionally, I personally find FreeBSD to be a superior operating system. In my experienced it just plain works better.
(usually there's another way to do the same thing, but it requires a reasonable
understanding of the system to find it; many of our users are at the stage
where they know a lot of interesting commands, but don't have a very strong
overall knowledge of Unix.)
- river.
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