From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 3 11:54:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (75-MADR-X51.libre.retevision.es [62.82.53.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E68B14F55 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:54:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sjmudd@pobox.com) Received: by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id B5DF136EC; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:58:44 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD against Linux References: <3.0.32.19991203110908.006c3b50@pop.idx.com.au> <19991202214505.09845@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> From: Simon J Mudd Date: 03 Dec 1999 19:58:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com's message of "3 Dec 1999 18:25:05 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com (Greg Lehey) writes: > Also, if you want to prefer FreeBSD, install it first, and then get to > know it. Then install Linux; you'll hate it. On the other hand, if > you install Linux first and get to know it, and then install FreeBSD, > you'll hate FreeBSD. Hate is probably not the right word to use. "get highly frustrated" may be a better way of putting the feeling. Also bear in mind that as there are different distributions of linux, this influences the feel a lot. Maybe Debian would be an easier distribution of linux to try as I think the feel is closer to FreeBSD (BSD) than Maybe RedHat or SuSE (SysV). Whichever you choose, if you have someone who knows the version you are trying this will help ENORMOUSLY. In both cases if you have time, take time to learn the systems, the differences and find the similarities. > A lot of preferences are really "what you're used to". It's very > difficult to be objective. Very true. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message