From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 16:51:54 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 BDB3316A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:51:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B92A43D46 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:51:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl) Received: from reston.demon.nl ([212.238.216.87]:1375 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5ocr-00037Q-7J; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:51:53 +0000 Message-ID: <4141DBCB.7040304@reston.demon.nl> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:52:27 +0200 From: yuri van Overmeeren User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johan Claesson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about FreeBSD. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:51:54 -0000 Johan Claesson wrote: > Hi, I'm quite new to the world of linux, and I are going to set up a > linux server, and I'm looking aroud for a good linux system, and I > find FreeBSD quite interesting. Does FreeBSD have a X-mode and is it > easy to handle? Whats the difference between FreeBSD, Slackware and > Redhat? > > Thanks for your time. > > Best regards, > Johan As said before FreeBSD is not a linux distribution, FreeBSD is a more direct descendant of Unix. Red Hat is the most user friendly of the ones you name, but in my opinion it's not very good Slackware is the most 'clean' linux distribution around, It has good performance and is very customisable and very very stable. I'd say it's one of the most unix like linux in structure. FreeBSD is not a linux, But the best on your list in my opinion. It's extremely stable, very easy to maintain, update and fix. Performance, especially with multiple things going on, is much better then on linux in my expereince. All 3 come with the X window system and a few GUIs like KDE and Gnome etc... Slackware and FreeBSD dont have them set up and configured by default, you have to do that yourself. (it's not scary) If you understand the basics of a Unix OS, FreeBSD is very clear and easy to handle. If you are comletely new I do recommend reading up on some Unix basics, and/or the chapters in the FreeBSD handbook on this. -yuri