Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 06:49:57 -0500 (EST) From: pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux --> FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980124064507.28316E-100000@oncomdis.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <34ca6e44.1695205@mail.cetlink.net>
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hehehee.. I am faced with almost 100 emails this morning asking why the switch to FreeBSD from Linux? I'm flattered so many people care...<kidding>..... The reasons at this point (nothing written in stone) is that I took one disk, inserted it into a machine, answered a few basic questions about hardware, navigated a very easy to use (at least I thought so) menu system asking what I wanted to do and what site to download it from etc. etc.... waited about 20 minutes and voila, one completely ready to roll Unix system. Then onced booted, I went to the ports collection (this ports collection thing has to be the best invention I've ever seen, much better than RPM on Linux in my opinion), told the server I wanted Squid and about ten minutes later after copying my configuration from my backups I had a fully running (apparently pretty secure also) server running a 4 gig proxy cache. Simple, easy and to the point.... also like the upgrade features.... I found we spent literally hours in Linux just upgrading kernels on the various servers, patching GCC, recompiling Apache constantly as upgrades came out..... with FreeBSD this seems so much easier and painless. Thanks to everyone so far for their great support. Paul -- Out the modem, through the SPARC, down the T3, off the router, past the frame-relay... nothing but Net. On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, John Kelly wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:30:01 +0000, pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca wrote: > > >We are in the process as an ISP network provider of switching most if > >not all machines from Linux to FreeBSD. As the network admin, I am > >now faced with learning FreeBSD. > > Just to hear it in your own words ... what caused the decision to > switch? > > > Currently we have switched our proxy server over > >the FreeBSD and it's running much better under Squid than it was > >under Linux. > > FreeBSD users would rather fight than switch. :-) > > John > > >
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