From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 17:47:51 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 E798316A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:47:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from usw2.natel.net (2b.bz [209.152.117.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE13443D39 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:47:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: (qmail 348 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2005 17:47:41 -0000 Received: from batv-01-023.dialup.netins.net (HELO Htebazile.US-Webmasters.com) (216.248.109.24) by us-webmasters.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 17:47:41 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20050420124614.07250780@209.152.117.178> X-Sender: wd@209.152.117.178 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:46:22 -0500 To: koen de wijs From: "W. D." In-Reply-To: <426686A2.4030303@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:47:52 -0000 At 11:43 4/20/2005, koen de wijs wrote: >Hello folks, > > >I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced=20 >FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is=20 >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=20 >stuff will be set up during installation. > >I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why=20 >isn't there a desktop and a server installation? > > >Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between=20 >FreeBSD and Linux? There are some significant differences especially where servers are concerned--some links below. As far as the desktop environment goes, supposedly most anything that compiles on Linux, should compile on FreeBSD. http://tinyurl.com/2f8np http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/techtv_090303.html http://tinyurl.com/6xhrz http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux8.php http://www.InternetWeek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D12800936 http://Search.Yahoo.com/search?p=3D%22FreeBSD+vs.+Linux%22 http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22FreeBSD+vs.+Linux%22 Much of what runs on Linux also runs on FreeBSD, either 'natively' or using Linux emulation. http://www.Google.com/search?q=3DFreeBSD+features+Linux Here is an installation how-to that I've worked up: http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/