From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 10:31: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (14-MADR-X22.libre.retevision.es [62.82.32.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F57F37BFBD for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjmudd@pobox.com) Received: by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id B6F6536F5; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:51:36 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how does freebsd compare to mandrake 7.0? References: <004f01bfaba4$7b287b20$cb8c8ec6@fiona> From: Simon J Mudd Date: 28 Apr 2000 18:51:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: sijr@optusnet.com.au's message of "21 Apr 2000 18:18:02 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 41 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sijr@optusnet.com.au ("Simon Robertson") writes: > I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 and I was wondering if I purchased = > FreeBSD 4.0 how it would compare? I've been using (RedHat) Linux for several years and recently installed freebsd (3.3) on a new machine. They are quite different, and initially FreeBSD doesn't come with as much baggage (this is installed via ports). FreeBSD has quite a different filosophy of managing packages, and most people (from what I gather) prefer to rebuild ports or parts of the base system by downloading/compiling/reinstalling. This is quite different to RedHat/Mandrake's use of a sophsisticated package manager to do most of the dirty work (on another machine). Which is best? I think you need to treat them as different. FreeBSD is a unix, while linux can't legally call itself unix. The utilities and commands work almost identically. System administration differs significantly and that takes time to adjust to. FreeBSD has one clear advantage: a single `distriubtion' something which regrettably lacks having forked into debian/redhat/mandrake/slackware etc. > Also I current run KDE on Mandrake 7.0, would there be any changes in = > comparison to FreeBSD 4.0 KDE appearance or running? KDE is pretty much the same. You shouldn't notice any differences. I think in the end if you can install/run both until you are comfortable with each and can decide which you find better. I've haven't reached that stage yet, but probably once I'm convinced one way or another will just use one of the two. In the process you will have learnt more, and if you ever have to use another unix you'll find yourself more comfortable. 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