From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 14:16:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB56516A4F7 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:16:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E158E43D39 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 23-101.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.23.101] helo=192.168.63.21) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AkW4M-0006wx-00; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:15:58 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: jesse@wingnet.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:17:04 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401232340.40104.bsd@elkins.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401241617.05108.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4beaabc09e65a0aa69dc9e0b8bf3758552350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Re: Why BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: algould@datawok.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:16:10 -0000 On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:26 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Occasion 2.) Got sick of Win 98 SE on my wife's computer, so I decided to > "give Linux a second chance". > > This time I WANTED to go with Red Hat, since it's arguably the > most popular Linux distro. However, one look at their new licensing made me > change my mind in favor of Gentoo - The most BSD-like Linux distro. Slackware + portage would be interesting. Andrew Gould