From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 16:30:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0773A37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B492943E65 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:30:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021017233051.GDKB22897.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@mac.com> for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:30:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3DAF481D.5060308@mac.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:30:37 -0700 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020927 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: Re: New to BSD and have a few questions. References: <200210172324.g9HNOx1J044382@axp.csl.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 @ 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