From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 17:16:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2876616A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:16:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780B343D41 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:16:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA22A60EA; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:16:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47581-02; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:16:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [63.117.97.163] (unknown [63.117.97.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D1360D6; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:16:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42668E5C.5060600@makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:16:12 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050414) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: koen de wijs References: <426686A2.4030303@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <426686A2.4030303@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:16:29 -0000 koen de wijs wrote: > Hello folks, > > > I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced > FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is > that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. > I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic > stuff will be set up during installation. > > I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why > isn't there a desktop and a server installation? > > > Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between > FreeBSD and Linux? > > > Koen > (I don't want to start a flame war, only some good sites) > If you are not finding FreeBSD suitable based on what you have said, then FreeBSD is NOT for you. The developers are not here to design an OS that is to en compus the users that want everything done for you. You have to have a certain level of knowledge to do FreeBSD, and to do it well. If you want easy (numbingly boring) then both Windows and Linux (some distros - not all) are for you. Don't expect things to change just because they "seem" to inconvenience YOU. Either YOU adapt, or YOU move on. Just like if you hear a song on the radio - if you don't like, you change the station. Pretty simple. Now - as to the differences - go a Google search on FreeBSD vs Linux. -- Best regards, Chris The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.