From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 06:43:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D3916A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 06:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from polaris.cbu.edu (polaris.cbu.edu [66.192.88.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F5DC43D3F for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 06:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mosborne@cbu.edu) Received: from cbu.edu ([192.168.10.7]) by polaris.cbu.edu (SAVSMTP 3.1.5.43) with SMTP id M2004051208411003744 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 08:41:10 -0500 Sender: mosborne@cbu.edu From: "mosborne" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Quality Web Email v3.1b, http://netwinsite.com/refw.htm Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:41:11 -0500 Message-id: <40a22977.1c9.2f0a.14008@cbu.edu> Subject: Need advice/direction picking a distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:43:38 -0000 Hi all, with the start of the summer here I am going to have a little more time on my hands and was wanting to dig into a new distro. Up until now I haven't had a lot of time so I have just been running man9.1 and I was now thinking about making the jump to Debian or even one of the BSD's. What I've been looking for on the net and can't seem to find is a good review of the pros/cons of a linux distro like Debian vs. say freeBSD/openBSD. They all seem to have a great informative community and thats what makes the decision harder. Please try not too be too biased in your reply. ;] thx, m.