From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 8 7:21:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bne004m.webcentral.com.au (bne004m.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45D3B37B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20102 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2001 15:21:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warhawk) (203.147.160.224) by bne004m.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 8 Feb 2001 15:21:16 -0000 Message-ID: <001b01c091e3$51d3e9a0$0100a8c0@warhawk> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "Nik Clayton" , "Mikael Claesson" Cc: References: <20010208070739.A82647@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Subject: Re: Switching from Linux Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 01:25:07 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FWIW, I've tried redhat6.2, and while I know freebsd better than I know linux. /etc under freebsd makes more sense to me than /etc on linux. I hate all those runlevels and stuff...normal mode and single user mode are all I need. I like to think of single user mode as analogous to the Windows 'safe' mode, but without the annoying reboot to get in or out of it. Also, fbsd's installation, while not as pretty, did the job better than a RH default install.....you can't even find ifconfig with that thing.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nik Clayton" To: "Mikael Claesson" Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:07 PM Subject: Re: Switching from Linux > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +1100, Mikael Claesson wrote: > > I've been using Linux as a desktop system for some time now, but I'm getting > > interested in BSD. What you should have is a big fat link on your front page > > that reads "Using Linux? Wanna switch?" and a nice section on the > > differences a resular user would need to know. > > I have been asking, for roughly the past three years, for any of our > users who are already familiar with Linux, and have made the switch, to > write something like this. > > So far, no one's volunteered. Actually, that's not true. Several > people have volunteered, and then never produced anything. > > I would be over the moon if someone who knows a Linux distribution would > make a start on this. Any takers? > > N (Doc. Project Manager) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message