From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 3 12:57:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA12182 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 May 1997 12:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA12174 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 12:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA00632; Sat, 3 May 1997 21:57:26 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 21:57:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199705031957.VAA00632@bitbox.follo.net> From: Eivind Eklund To: Chris Brown CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Chris Brown's message of 03 May 97 13:45:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Finding documentation for FreeBSD. References: <945C782F012E0F00@seitz.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I am getting ready to build up several servers for mail, web > server, ftp server, DNS etc. and several lower level machines for > remote site routing and mail. The systems that are being seriously > considered are FreeBSD and Linux. I have been gravitating tward > Linux primarily because the documentation is easier to find and seams > to be in a format that is more simple to use. The UN*X world in > general is fairly new to me and documentation and support at this > time are extremely important. > > What are the best sources of documentation other than the > FreeBSD handbook and the FAQs. The man pages. Also, most of the Linux HOWTOs should apply fairly well to FreeBSD - many of those are fairly generic. > Is there a compelling reason to use FreeBSD over Linux? For > some time our servers will be fairly bandwidth limited so I don't see > that there will be a large enough difference in performance to be > noticed for some time. FreeBSD has a more controlled development and distribution environment; this make at least me feel much safer running FreeBSD than Linux on production servers. Eivind.