From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 05:35:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878DD37B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 05:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10503.mail.yahoo.com (web10503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3045E43F75 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 05:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frebhed@yahoo.com.au) Message-ID: <20030517123511.91575.qmail@web10503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.76.136.20] by web10503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 17 May 2003 22:35:11 EST Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 22:35:11 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frederick=20Johnson?= To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <10288343621.20030517072452@sentex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: To freeBSD or not freeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:35:11 -0000 --- Trish wrote: > Hello freebsd-newbies, > > I'm wondering why you picked freeBSD over other distros. I'm > getting ready to build my first Linux box and I admit, I have not fully > researched all the options yet, but am looking at freeBSD on the > recommendation of, well, my son. I take him seriously as he is > already running linux (though not freeBSD as yet - that's his and > my upcoming project), he and his friends are no slouches at this stuff, > typical techie teenagers, and have the time to > do such things. I have less. However, I'm interested in what the > actual user community has to say. > > I get the impression there is significant support available, apps and > drivers are available and configurable > and it's not a nightmare to run. But that's just an impression and > I haven't compared it enough with anything else. > > So if anyone cares to venture a point of view, I'd be interested to > hear it. Thanks! :) > > -- > Trish These topics are killers! I can feel my inbox getting full already... I have tried Mandrake, Debian and Slackware... neither of them stayed on for longer than 2 months (for various reasons)... One thing I particularly didnt like about Linux is whenever I went to configure/mess around with something (which I did/do a lot) I always got these descriptions saying (blah blah) 'this is a mix of BSD and systemV, we put some things here and other things here, oh, and this is something that we designed ourselves over here etc'. I have found FreeBSD to be very organised and easy to understand, which really suprised me... I thought being some hardcore UNIX distro meant that only people with an equally hardcore understanding of UNIX would be able to use it! :) There are many other things which I dont like about Linux and love about FreeBSD... I could go on forever about the subject... I know people say FreeBSD is the fastest, stablest, most functional OS out there... from what I have experienced so far I am begining to believe them. :) ...is there an advocacy mailing list? :) Fred ===== worry is a missuse of imagination http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.