From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 13:34:48 2008 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 3ED661065673 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@pcjas.obspm.fr) Received: from blade2-ext.obspm.fr (blade2-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90BC8FC15 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@pcjas.obspm.fr) Received: from pcjas.obspm.fr (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.233]) by blade2-ext.obspm.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/SIO Observatoire de Paris - 15/11/07) with ESMTP id m6BDNhVY024714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:44 +0200 Received: from pcjas.obspm.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcjas.obspm.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6BDNhNt092425; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jas@pcjas.obspm.fr) Received: (from jas@localhost) by pcjas.obspm.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6BDNhEI092424; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jas) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:43 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Ian Lord Message-ID: <20080711132343.GH90678@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <990695FC90DB4BC8B3439F779B73FCF8@msdi.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <990695FC90DB4BC8B3439F779B73FCF8@msdi.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (blade2-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.20]); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/7690/Fri Jul 11 10:07:09 2008 on blade2-ext.obspm.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux for freebsd admins X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:34:48 -0000 Le 11/07/2008 à 07:29:35-0400, Ian Lord a écrit > Hi, > > > I tried debian ubuntu and fedora and didn't like them. > > I want: > > - A basic install (not 900 packages installed by default > > - No gui, I like my flashing cursor > > - an equivalent of ports. I want to easily compile my ports I don't like > prebuilt package. Want to retrieve them by cvs. > > - an equivalent to portupgrade. > > I gotta admit mabe the three I tried was able to do that, but I'm so > negative about linux thay maybe I didn't see the good point of it. > > Could you tell me which distribution you are using when you have no choice > and need to go to linux ? I'm in the same situation : My experience : Fedora -->If you like the lastest features (including bugs) of software it's good distro Debian --> Good distro but IMHO the update is to slow and after some year on a server you run very out-of-date software CentOS --> Good if the software you need is RedHat Compliant only, because CentOS is a RedHat without the support. About software (packages) : Fedora/CentOS : Using yum and rpm. Work well but they are not many packages in the official repository. You need to find with rpmfind many package. Debian : Lots of packages, but as I said it's out-of-date. You can run unstable (like 7-Stable) or Testing (like 7-current) but it's on your own risk. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Heure local/Local time: Ven 11 jul 2008 15:16:53 CEST