From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 12:30:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5C016A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A532343D1D for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ogautherot@freesurf.fr) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (62-240-243-167.adsl.claranet.fr [62.240.243.167]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1CF2A5DF6; Wed, 12 May 2004 21:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Olivier Gautherot To: mosborne In-Reply-To: <40a22977.1c9.2f0a.14008@cbu.edu> References: <40a22977.1c9.2f0a.14008@cbu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1084390263.977.8.camel@ogautherot.og-lan.freesurf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:31:03 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice/direction picking a distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:30:21 -0000 Go for Yellowtab/Zeta :-) (... hope I'm not too biased :-) It's not *NIX (POSIX compliant, though) On the FreeBSD front, well, that's also my main system now. It just works out of the box for most things and, if you have a wideband connection, you'll update your system like a charm. Having tried various linux distros (SuSE, Lindows, RedHat), I still find the structure of FreeBSD mode coherent. Keeping aplications up to date is also much easier in FreeBSD than any Linux distro - with the possible exception of Gentoo but I have not tried it. In any case, these systems are fun to configure and use. Cheerio Olivier On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 15:41, mosborne wrote: > Hi all, with the start of the summer here I am going to have > a little more time on my hands and was wanting to dig into a > new distro. Up until now I haven't had a lot of time so I > have just been running man9.1 and I was now thinking about > making the jump to Debian or even one of the BSD's. What > I've been looking for on the net and can't seem to find is a > good review of the pros/cons of a linux distro like Debian > vs. say freeBSD/openBSD. They all seem to have a great > informative community and thats what makes the decision > harder. Please try not too be too biased in your reply. ;] > thx, m. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"