From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 9:24:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.e3tech.net (e3tech.net [209.210.193.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8FF37B406 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfulton@e3tech.net) Received: from malini [24.1.30.3] by mail.e3tech.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A5B8416014E; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:24:24 -0700 Message-ID: <046d01c12fdd$e59dda90$0801a8c0@corp.trigeo.com> Reply-To: "Joel M. Fulton" From: "Joel M. Fulton" To: "Brian Raynes" , "freebsd newbies" References: <03d201c12fcc$ce04a7d0$0801a8c0@corp.trigeo.com> <3B8BC040.8D50C36E@dnr.state.ak.us> Subject: Re: Would like comments and opinions regarding desktop OS switch Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:24:21 -0700 Organization: E3 Technology MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Interesting (to me) side note - I grew up in Anchorage... any how... Thank you for the information - I've performed many OpenBSD install/setups (only as firewall/vpn/router, but I really like its simplicity and resultant management ease) and used Redhat for about a year and a half (desktop) - I'm just sick of all the unnecessary RH garbage they throw at me. Their package manager is obtuse and unwieldy -> and that's the main reason I'm looking at Debian with their apt-get/dselect tool. I've not used CVS a great deal - any thoughts on that? - particularly with regard to updating ports/os? I am expecting to have to work and learn - anything of value requires effort - but ceaseless, frustrating toil is why I'm in the middle of the pack of rats deserting the MS ship. What you describe fits my needs well - I don't have huge requirements, bleed plenty at work, and would prefer simplicity, but I want the damn thing to work and work well. thank you for your opinions. joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Raynes" To: "Joel M. Fulton" ; "freebsd newbies" Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Would like comments and opinions regarding desktop OS switch > Well Joel, > > I decided on Freebsd based on the best hardware support of the bsd's. > Things like parallel zip drive support are useful to me. Openbsd was > one of the nicest, cleanest installs, once you figure out how to use the > OS, but freebsd has these little extras that are useful to me. > > I've installed Debian, but haven't used it extensively. I liked it for > a linux, and apt has a good reputation as a package system. BSD ports > system is very nice though. My favorite Linux is Slackware. But I've > become biased toward BSD-style init systems. For a home computer, > especially a workstation, leaving out all the complexity of the Sys-V > runlevels is nice. I'm not as rabidly against Sys-V init as some in the > BSD camps, but I generally prefer the BSD one. > > Other than that, I like the Debian distribution's conservative > approach. That's not as good if you like living on the "cutting edge", > though. > > That reminds me of one other thing I appreciate about FreeBSD. The > different stable branches that are maintained. You mentioned stability > as important - well, I think that FreeBSD has one of the best systems > for easily maintaining a stable, but up-to-date platform in the free-OS > world right now. > > > my two cents, > > Brian Raynes > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message