From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 13:18:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linuxpower.p00t.net (mke-160-240-116.wi.rr.com [24.160.240.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E898237B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trout@localhost) by linuxpower.p00t.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8CKDNC13452; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:13:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:13:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Tom Duffey To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , "Frederick J Polsky v1.0" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD guide for Linux admins In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry guys, but I must point out that a couple things mentioned here are incorrect: > > BSD doesn't have the 128MB swap partition limit. Neither does Linux, since kernel 2.2 anyway. From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes : "Among other changes made in the development of Linux kernel 2.2, the 128 meg limit on IA32 swap partition sizes has been eliminated..." > > Redhat will add a new group with each new users name by default. BSD will > > not. No big deal, just be careful to check your user adds after your done > > to see if they are what you expected. I must admit that I have only been using FreeBSD since 4.0, but every single installation I've done HAS added a new group for each user, an integral part to my style of security. Best Regards, Tom Duffey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message