From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 17:02:42 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 9EECB16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C80F43D48 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1104.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 51B471C00041 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:02:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1104.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 04B761C000BE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:02:40 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050223170241203.04B761C000BE@mwinf1104.wanadoo.fr Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:02:40 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <476138570.20050223180240@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <421CA913.6040304@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> References: <421CA913.6040304@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:02:42 -0000 Laurence Sanford writes: > I was converted to FreeBSD from Slackware. If you want to go Linux and > maintain the "freedom of configuration" you have with FreeBSD (ie, just > edit the text file, which is in a sensable spot) and get ...whatever it > is you hope to get from linux - don't get me wrong, Linux has a lot to > offer, I just can't personally think of anything it offers above and > beyond FreeBSD - Slackware would be the way to go in my opinion. I'm mainly debating whether or not some direct experience with Linux would or would not be professionally useful to me. Were it not for that, FreeBSD would be the obvious choice. As it is, FreeBSD will probably be the desktop I end up running, in part because I know it better than Linux, in part because I can actually get it to install and boot (unlike Mandrake, which just left me dead in the water 30 seconds after booting and showing a pretty startup screen), and in part because I like to know what I'm installing instead of just installing a black box. However, an obstacle is setting up an X environment, which I don't know much about, and which I don't have unlimited time to fool around with. Some of the Linux distributions claim to be plug and play (although I have serious doubts about this). Also, on my old hardware, I suspect that hardly anything could be plug and play--there are just too many weirdnesses on this HP Vectra. > But > that's holy war territory now, so I'll leave you with this: I switched > to FreeBSD from Slackware because of the ports/package system. They make > software installation so easy a Microsoft user could do it if they pay > attention. Does that include X and KDE? I'm getting wild SCSI errors on FreeBSD trying to install stuff, and I don't really know what that means, but it doesn't appear to be corrupting anything, and it seems to be installing software. -- Anthony