From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 14:19:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CDC16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:19:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (adsl-068-157-070-217.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [68.157.70.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC8643D73 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-212-169-31.jan.bellsouth.net [68.212.169.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9F01551E for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:19:38 -0600 (CST) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id ACE6020F2D; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:19:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:19:36 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040113221936.GJ41788@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Subject: (FreeBSD) for Linux Users X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:19:49 -0000 I've long been tossing around the idea of writing a "BSD for Linux Users" sort of essay. I wanted to approach it, not from the direction of building a laundry list of command correspondences and differences like that, but rather by describing some of the design philosophy and methodology that cause the differences. My theory is that once you understand those foundations, the upper-level differences are both easier to figure out, and make more sense when you do figure them out. I've had lots of it floating around my head, and some bits and pieces scratched out in text files floating around my homedir. But I finally took a weekend to sit down and try and pull it all together. It's now on my webpage starting at . It's rather long (somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000 words), but I think it's fairly readable. I'd be interested in any feedback on it, especially from Linux users anybody might know who've had trouble grasping the BSD Way(tm). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"