From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 03:08:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3C916A4EC for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:08:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.finnovative.net (h204-247-59-114.ncal.verio.net [204.247.59.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6C643D49 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:08:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linuxuser@finnovative.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.55.105]) by mail.finnovative.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:08:35 -0800 Message-ID: <420438B3.9050506@finnovative.net> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:08:35 -0800 From: Joaquin Menchaca User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20050130120113.6619D16A4D8@hub.freebsd.org> <002101c5074c$7862ffb0$0301a8c0@creativity> In-Reply-To: <002101c5074c$7862ffb0$0301a8c0@creativity> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2005 03:08:35.0710 (UTC) FILETIME=[FB4811E0:01C50B2F] Subject: Re: Leaving FreeBSD for Linux - Please Don't Hurt Me X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:08:37 -0000 In some ways I feel saddened, as I like FreeBSD. However, I can sympathize with you. I tried different Linux distros, and they are far far far easier to configure and setup, than FreeBSD. They have nice intuitive graphical facilities. On the negative side of things for Linux, some distros (not all of them) are very insecure. I noticed insecure older versions of tools like OpenSSL, ISCA DHCP, SAMBA, etc. included with the distros like RedHat. These should be updated ASAP, either through the pay facility or do-it-yourself. It's hard to keep track of what stuff they added, and what is broken/insecure. I think that with Linux, you have to become knowledgeable on how to harden and secure the system. I feel that FreeBSD seems a bit more secure out of the getgo. I personally use both FreeBSD and Linux at home. I like the ports directory and I like the security common-sense emphasis in FreeBSD. I feel more comfortable with it being a server. Because of this, I have FreeBSD as the server, and Linux as the development/desktop system. For Linux, I professionally (work environ) like SuSE, but lot of places use RedHat. Personally, I like gentoo. But then I have 64-bit computers (amd64, ppc, and ultra sparc) and I can roll out a buff 64-bit system, which makes a big difference in performance on Intel platform, i.e. amd. --- joaquin