From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 8 7:38:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dunces.org (dunces.org [64.81.23.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF5437B491; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:38:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (czr@localhost) by dunces.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f18FtFu03089; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:55:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:55:14 -0800 (PST) From: To: Haikal Saadh Cc: Nik Clayton , Mikael Claesson , Subject: Re: Switching from Linux In-Reply-To: <001b01c091e3$51d3e9a0$0100a8c0@warhawk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org redhat isnt the best stick to do your measuring with though. Ive used slackware for quite a while now and I like it as much as FreeBSD anyday. Debian is a nice package as well.... Burke On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Haikal Saadh wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message