Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:47:41 -0400 From: Trish <failte@sentex.net> To: Frederick Johnson <frebhed@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: To freeBSD or not freeBSD Message-ID: <1302153413.20030519184741@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20030517123511.91575.qmail@web10503.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030517123511.91575.qmail@web10503.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello Frederick, Steve et al, Well, I hope this topic wasn't too hard on too many inboxes. :) I appreciate the varied and detailed responses, I certainly got the answers I was looking for and then some, especially from those whose jobs are similar to mine. While I have a bit more research to do to be absolutely comfortable with what I spend my time on, seems like my son's advice to freeBSD was solid. Thanks, all. Trish Saturday, May 17, 2003, 8:35:11 AM, you wrote: FJ> --- Trish <failte@sentex.net> wrote: > Hello freebsd-newbies, >> >> I'm wondering why you picked freeBSD over other distros. I'm >> getting ready to build my first Linux box and I admit, I have not fully >> researched all the options yet, but am looking at freeBSD on the >> recommendation of, well, my son. I take him seriously as he is >> already running linux (though not freeBSD as yet - that's his and >> my upcoming project), he and his friends are no slouches at this stuff, >> typical techie teenagers, and have the time to >> do such things. I have less. However, I'm interested in what the >> actual user community has to say. >> >> I get the impression there is significant support available, apps and >> drivers are available and configurable >> and it's not a nightmare to run. But that's just an impression and >> I haven't compared it enough with anything else. >> >> So if anyone cares to venture a point of view, I'd be interested to >> hear it. Thanks! :) >> >> -- >> Trish FJ> These topics are killers! I can feel my inbox getting full already... FJ> I have tried Mandrake, Debian and Slackware... neither of them stayed on for FJ> longer than 2 months (for various reasons)... One thing I particularly didnt FJ> like about Linux is whenever I went to configure/mess around with something FJ> (which I did/do a lot) I always got these descriptions saying (blah blah) 'this FJ> is a mix of BSD and systemV, we put some things here and other things here, oh, FJ> and this is something that we designed ourselves over here etc'. I have found FJ> FreeBSD to be very organised and easy to understand, which really suprised FJ> me... I thought being some hardcore UNIX distro meant that only people with an FJ> equally hardcore understanding of UNIX would be able to use it! :) There are FJ> many other things which I dont like about Linux and love about FreeBSD... I FJ> could go on forever about the subject... FJ> I know people say FreeBSD is the fastest, stablest, most functional OS out FJ> there... from what I have experienced so far I am begining to believe them. :) FJ> ...is there an advocacy mailing list? :) FJ> Fred FJ> ===== FJ> worry is a missuse of imagination FJ> http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile FJ> - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. FJ> _______________________________________________ FJ> freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list FJ> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies FJ> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best regards, Trish mailto:failte@sentex.net
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