From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 2 18:18:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239B1106564A for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@mi.celestial.com) Received: from dorsai-02.celestial.com (dorsai-02.celestial.com [192.136.111.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10A18FC08 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dorsai-02.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5345A205B3BB for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at celestial.com Received: from dorsai-02.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dorsai-02.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id H3ReWg5rpYau for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by dorsai-02.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF1B205B3AF for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6AE68BC8B83; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id seSkTgDWkJOY; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id C340D68BC8B82; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:49:00 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090702174900.GA22034@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <9cbf3f070907020247i5a6fefeco736034bd84d0ee67@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9cbf3f070907020247i5a6fefeco736034bd84d0ee67@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 OpenPKG/% (2009-01-05) Subject: Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:02 -0000 On Thu, Jul 02, 2009, Artifex Maximus wrote: >Hello! > >On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood > wrote: > >> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you >> prefer? and why? > >I used to like Slackware but moved to Ubuntu two or three years before. I >liked Slackware simplicity but its package system was too simple and then I >moved to FreeBSD. Some years before I had found Ubuntu and stayed there for >Linux boxes. Some people prefer Debian over Ubuntu but I dislike Debian >approach on packages (namely patch the older version as long as you can >instead of switch to a newer one). We currently use CentOS for servers and Macs for desktops. Over the years we have gone from Caldera->SuSE->CentOS, and I am most comfortable in an RPM environment having used it since 1995 or so. All our server software is built under the OpenPKG portable packaging system whether the system is FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, OpenSolaris, or even SCO OpenServer 5.0.6. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. == H.L. Mencken