From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 23:42:10 2003 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 DF67516A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7572E43FDD for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41])h926fv22016004; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:41:57 +1000 (EST) From: JacobRhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: Erik Steffl , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:41:57 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200310012305.46092.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> <3F7B9C62.30703@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7B9C62.30703@bigfoot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310021641.57828.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat 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, 02 Oct 2003 06:42:11 -0000 On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:32 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > both freeBSD and linux distros (most of them at least) give you > choice what you install. Just because it's on CD does not mean it's Yes, but RedHat installs piles more junk which you dont use.... (At least last time I did an install about a year ago.. had things like gaim and other things I dont even know what are for). Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386