From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 30 20:12:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8001937B42A for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from notebloat (unknown [10.0.1.33]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A622B27E; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:12:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <200112302312500070.000B0733@home.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c191a5$d79b11e0$4870f7a5@SONYVAIO> References: <000801c191a5$d79b11e0$4870f7a5@SONYVAIO> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:12:50 -0500 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: "ecflynn" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux to bsd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 On 12/30/2001 at 9:49 PM ecflynn wrote: |from what i hear bsd is light years ahead of linux and bsd also has alot |more to offer in terms of applications and such. Is this true and is |everything virtually the same as linux and everything i have for linux |will it run on bsd? I don't mind changes here an there but will it be |like switching from windows to linux for the first time in a sense or no? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D I've played with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux and Mandrake Linux. So= far, I like Mandrake better than Red Hat Linux. Why? Well, for starters,= RH Linux still uses sendmail as the default MTA, Mandrake uses Postfix -= an excellent MTA. Secondly, the Mandrake install is much, much better. My firewall is OpenBSD, for security reasons (after all, it *is* a= firewall). My web server is FreeBSD because FreeBSD seems to have more third-party= support than OpenBSD. FreeBSD is rather impressive in its= accomplishments, and thought of design. Yes, I have found that the BSD's are ahead of the Linux's. However,= keeping everything in perspective, the Linux's and the BSD's are= light-years ahead of anything out of Redmond.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message