From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 18:23:56 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 6BB2937B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4AB543E6A for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myraq@mgm51.com) Received: from notebloat (notebloat.24cl.home [10.0.1.33]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CB12B27E; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:23:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200210172123530539.0012EDD5@home.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <3DAF446A.1010901@gmx.net> References: <3DAF446A.1010901@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:23:53 -0400 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: "Robert Warning" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to BSD and have a few questions. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 On 10/17/2002 at 7:14 PM Robert Warning wrote: |Hello all. Staring about 6 months ago I began to leave the Windows world |and explore the world of Unix. My first stop was Linux (mainly because |it was the only Unix os for ix86 I heard of) and while I indeed enjoyed |Linux a great deal I want to explore more and try out the other *nixes |out there. My next logical stop would be the BSD world. While I intend |to keep using Linux a great deal I also want to exoplore BSD. My |question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? ============= My timeline is similar to yours, 'cept that it starts about 6 months earlier. Pitfalls? Mainly -- the parameters to some commands are different. Differences? -- man hier is your friend. FreeBSD seems to be more logically organized to me. Your opinion may be different. :-) -- I prefer the ports tree over RPMs in RH Linux. Explore and enjoy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message