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> What's the difference between the two operating systems At the shell level (tcsh, bash, ksh, etc), you won't see much difference. They both run XFree86, so you won't see much difference in the GUI either. It's when you look underneath at how the kernel works that you see difference. Obviously I think BSD is more mature, stable, robust, and so on. The two also perform differently under load and when networking. Obviously, I think BSD comes out ahead here too. This is not the right group to discuss all the reasons why you want to run true blue Unix(tm) decescendant rather than some kludged up hack of a toy operating system, so I won't go into this further. FreeBSD also has a central distribution. None of this what version do I run, which libraries are you using, and why doesn't make work with libc version XXX? > what difference does it make that it is going to be installed > "On a new machine, ..."? Lots of people are locked into an OS because that's what they've already installed on their system and "it's good enough". Even though there's something technically better, the pain of switching from DOS, or Windows, or Linux is to great for them. So a new machine represents a great opportunity to make that leap forward.