From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 7:33:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4779A37B41D for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 947 invoked by uid 100); 17 Mar 2002 15:33:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15508.46905.266849.327264@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:33:13 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Linux for a long-time FreeBSD user? In-Reply-To: <15508.26709.552773.464882@guru.mired.org> References: <15508.26709.552773.464882@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to thank everyone who replied. After some study, I'm downloading a copy of the Gentoo install disks. Three things about it got me: 1) they're engineering it as a server platform; 2) they treat building from source as the normal install; 3) it's doesn't use rpms. Thanks again to all who responded, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message