From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 24 21:27:46 2003 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 D081F37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.WPI.EDU (mail1.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026FE43E4A for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from emerson@WPI.EDU) Received: from mcafee.wpi.edu (mcafee.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.86]) by mail1.WPI.EDU (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h0P5RdK4022497 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:27:39 -0500 Received: from smtp.wpi.edu(130.215.36.186) by mcafee.wpi.edu via csmap id 8153; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:28:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from emdall.WPI.EDU (root@emdall.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.206]) by smtp.WPI.EDU (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h0P5RcJB005250 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:27:38 -0500 Received: from emdall.WPI.EDU (emerson@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emdall.WPI.EDU (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0P5RcoG014000 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:27:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (emerson@localhost) by emdall.WPI.EDU (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h0P5RcZU006467 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:27:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: emdall.WPI.EDU: emerson owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:27:38 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Emerson Longley To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Making the all-important switch Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm about ready to ditch Windoze for good and I'm spending what little free time I can find to prepare by researching FreeBSD. Currently, I run two OpenBSD servers and use a 3rd OpenBSD system (a laptop) as a portable terminal. I have 3 years of *nix (OpenBSD, true64, linux) experience, but only one years experience as an administrator (OpenBSD). My main desktop system is W2k and I am sick and tired of it. I have decided to replace W2k with FreeBSD, as it is more suited to desktop use than OpenBSD. Now that I'm done babbling, here's my question: What major differences will I encounter (post-install) as a new FreeBSD user/administrator that my OpenBSD experience wouldn't have prepared me for? I'm particularly curious about large underlying differences, but I'm interested in anything you folks consider important. Thanks in advance for the help. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message