From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 11:33:11 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 3706016A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:33:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97DB43D1D for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:33:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 2.2g3) with ESMTP id 4520080 for multiple; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:29:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <76E0DAA32C39D711B6EC0002B364A6FA043DCAF4@amsal01exc01.americatel.com.sv> References: <76E0DAA32C39D711B6EC0002B364A6FA043DCAF4@amsal01exc01.americatel.com.sv> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:32:59 -0400 To: mmiranda@americatel.com.sv X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com X-DNS-Paranoid: DNS ptr lookup of (65.193.73.208) failed 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: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:33:11 -0000 On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:55 PM, mmiranda@americatel.com.sv wrote: > >> koen de wijs wrote: >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> >>> I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of >> mine adviced >>> FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I >> don't like is >>> that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. > > Yeah, this is unix my friend, that mean you have to get dirty "AND > LEARN" a > lot in the process. > >> There are a million sites discussing this, it's a flamebait, >> and no one >> wants to have that start up, so what you are doing is being (possible >> innocently, but I wonder) very very impolite. > > I totally agree, stop whining and begin to read, read, read a lot, > Do you want the easy way? go with linux, > btw, i think windows xp is the rigth choice to you ;-) , you dont want > to > read and learn, dont even touch a unix terminal I'm afraid after playing with both FreeBSD and some different distros of Linux, that "easy way" isn't necessarily Linux either. If anything it can get to be much more complex if used on the desktop when it comes to installing and updating software unless you only stick to that distro's "way" of installing new software. And if you set it up to do more complex tasks it still takes every bit as much understanding and altering of files as FreeBSD does! :-) The only "easy way" to go with installing things on a computer would have to be Windows (in the Intel world), since it is most often just a matter of clickclickclickclick done. Windows will usually run for several weeks while gathering glut and goo in the registry, in temporary directories, screwing up various things in the background. It has to be easy to set up because you end up having to reinstall when it "starts acting weird" :-) Really though; with Windows, it's a matter of "I want a web server...down load "web server"...click click license yeah yeah click... oooh! Web server! (don't know what it has open in the background or what scripts are enabled or disabled or...but who cares...web server!) With a Unix system it's "I want a web server.......hmm...Apache looks like it should work.......make install....edit config file...what's this do?...oh..........neat!...edit config...what's this directive?.......okay...edit...save...apachectl start...web server with X, Y, Z enabled, ,listening on port X, logging to Y, with virtual host Z. WEB SERVER!"