Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:30:37 -0700 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New to BSD and have a few questions. Message-ID: <3DAF481D.5060308@mac.com> References: <200210172324.g9HNOx1J044382@axp.csl.sri.com>
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Mike Hogsett wrote: >>My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD >>world? > > > Ok, time for the honest answer... > > Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities > (ps, ifconfig, route, etc.) are just a wee pit different, nothing too bad > and nothing the man pages won't help you with. The benefits of a unified system (no varying distros or mismatched package databases to contend with) will seem wondrous, I think, coming from Linux, unless of course you like spending a lot of time running rpmfind or up2date. That may be a pitfall . . . . You have this mailing list and others like it, as well as up to date man pages and a handbook that reflects the current state of the code base. This goes more to the first answer you got than the second, I realize, but it reflects my experience. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>; He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. -- John Mason Brown, drama critic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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