From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 11:56: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE6137B730 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 11:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12bpX8-000PxN-00; Sun, 02 Apr 2000 19:55:38 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12bpX7-000DGZ-00; Sun, 02 Apr 2000 19:55:37 +0100 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:55:37 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: What is freebsd Message-ID: <20000402195537.B85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38E77CE7.F9AF7ADD@3web.net> <38E781A0.5B3A062F@miltonstreet.com> <20000402105431.I21029@fw.wintelcom.net> <38E78669.CB142A56@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38E78669.CB142A56@miltonstreet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Carleton wrote: > My attitude is this: use Linux to start with because you can get up and > running quickly and allow you to learn the basics of UNIX. Once you know your > way around, then dive head first into FreeBSD. I've always found FreeBSD much easier and nicer than Linux, and I would recommend the original poster give it a try. I've tried a few distributions of Linux, and none of them seem as nice as FreeBSD. This is probably because I started with FreeBSD with no other Unix knowledge; the reason I don't like Linux is because I'm so used to FreeBSD I try things the FreeBSD way rather than learning the Linux way properly. The only Linux distribution I sort of like is Debian (though I can't help wondering where the hell 2.2 is). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message