From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 16:27:54 2004 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 618A216A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:27:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30D043D2F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:27:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i8AGRlmb054275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:27:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i8AGRli2054274; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:27:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:27:47 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Johan Claesson Message-ID: <20040910162747.GB53985@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Johan Claesson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XF85m9dhOBO43t/C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:27:47 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about FreeBSD. 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: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:27:54 -0000 --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:03:37PM +0000, Johan Claesson wrote: > Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a linu= x=20 > server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I find FreeBSD= =20 > quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it easy to handle?= =20 > Whats the difference between FreeBSD, Slackware and Redhat? Verb. Sap. Please do not confuse FreeBSD and Linux -- the two are quite separate projects. FreeBSD is not Linux. FreeBSD is a Unix OS derived from the 4.4BSD-lite codebase developed by the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Berkeley. Yes, FreeBSD runs pretty much all readily available free or open source software, including X Windows (either XFree86 or X.Org implementations) and the KDE and Gnome desktop environments. There are over 11,000 readily available applications from the ports collection, any of which can be installed with consumate ease simply by typing 'make install' in the correct directory. I personally think it's much the easiest to manage out of all of the examples you cite, but then again I've been dealing with Unix and unix-like systems for years. As a complete beginner you'll find that FreeBSD teaches you a lot more about the innards of the system and what precisely is going on than most other OSes. It does that by not even attempting to provide a lobotomized "for beginners only" management interface. I suggest you take a look at the FreeBSD handbook and the other, quite extensive, documentation available on the FreeBSD site: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBQdYDiD657aJF7eIRAkA3AKCQD6TY5RV5MrV+mM7IbzLAQSuhfQCgk6FK lTpyWDOxuVz4wo18qMhazRY= =2xl0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C--