From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 9:52:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527C337B424 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@inethouston.net) Received: from mike (unknown [216.118.21.156]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 15CA710F40F; Wed, 2 May 2001 11:52:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000f01c0d328$3905ae00$9c1576d8@inethouston.net> From: "Michael J. Turner" To: "Rick Duvall" , "Peter" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: Re:FreeBSD vs Lenix Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:52:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD is a damn great OS in it self. With badass support and speed. Of all the OS's I have been on FreeBSD is just the best in my opinion. FreeBSD is what I started with in UNIX and to me it is a great learning tool. I have many clients of mine that run FreeBSD. Even one of the clients is running FreeBSD v2.2.8 and still is running today with no problems at all. It is a great OS. I have never had anyone break in to the firewalls either. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Duvall" To: "Peter" Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:47 AM Subject: Re:FreeBSD vs Lenix > Yes Keith, I will vouch for that! I started my unix days on Slackware > Linux version 1.1.13. That thing wouldn't even recognize my ethernet card > (intel etherexpress pro 100). Found out that I had to get an ether > express pro 100B (had to be the B) to work, and even at that, I had to > recompile the kernel. But, those were the old days of Linux. I am sure > it is much easier now. > > But, I moved from Linux to BSDI (went to work for a company who used BSDI > on their systems), then from BSDI to FreeBSD on my own box, as I liked the > BSD style much better than the linux. > > Sincerely, > > Rick Duvall > > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Peter wrote: > > > I would stay stick with FreeBSD -- I used linux [RedHat 6.1], and that thing was a nightmare. > > You might want to go with Linux just to learn Unix a bit, > > as the installs are generally easier and it's more of an > > idiot-proof kinda setup. > > > > If you are a serious computer user/Unix user > > I would definitely suggest FreeBSD -- so far I haven't found > > anything better [Sys admin on Solaris 8 sparc -- still think FBSD > > is much beeter :) ] > > > > I would go read up on Unix in general still and then make > > your own decision but here is one thing you will very often find in the mailing list: > > > > people dumping linux and going to FreeBSD -- Linux is just the learning step > > and then after you learn unix enought you go to FreeBSD to get serious :). > > > > On 05/02/2001 10:13:02 AM, KP is quoted as saying: > > > > > > . . . .|What is better for a person new to the *nix world, > > . . . .|Linux or FreeBSD? > > . . . .| > > . . . .|I purchased the CD Box set (10 CDs) from BSDi and have > > . . . .|been trying to install for 2 weeks now, with no > > . . . .|success (See previous posting: "Kernel/Config Install > > . . . .|problems DFE-530TX+, fd0, config> di fe0, and more"). > > . . . .| > > . . . .| > > . . . .|I spoke with a friend (AIX and Sol SysAdmin) about my > > . . . .|project and he suggested I drop FreeBSD and go with > > . . . .|RedHat Linux. He said more companies migrating over > > . . . .|to the RedHat Linux than any other OS and that RedHat > > . . . .|Linux is close in understanding to AIX. > > . . . .| > > . . . .|I am new to BSD and have no Unix background. I have > > . . . .|invested time and money in trying to get the BSD OS > > . . . .|configured properly, but I am wondering if invested > > . . . .|unwisely. > > . . . .| > > . . . .|Keith > > . . . .| > > . . . .| > > . . . .| > > . . . .|__________________________________________________ > > . . . .|Do You Yahoo!? > > . . . .|Yahoo! 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