From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 17:55:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEFD152DF for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:55:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eroubinc@u.washington.edu) Received: from dante14.u.washington.edu (eroubinc@dante14.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.40]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id RAA35784; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:55:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (eroubinc@localhost) by dante14.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id RAA74876; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:55:10 -0800 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:55:10 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein To: Daniel Imfeld Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advantages of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000101be682d$0b70a020$0995fbd0@daniel1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Daniel Imfeld wrote: >I will soon be installing either FreeBSD or Linux on my computer. What >advantages does FreeBSD have over the Slackware distribution of Linux? (specifically over _Slackware_ distribution): Slackware is a _major_pain_ to upgrade, FreeBSD has been _much_ better. To go from a_out to elf on a FreeBSD system, all I had to do was get updated sources, make sure I had enough disk space, make aout-to-elf, add a few lines to the kernel config. file and run disklabel -B to install new boot blocks.) Read the equivalent document describing how to upgrade a Slackware distribution to elf to appreciate the difference. Linux development model is much more de-centralized. If you are new to Unix, FreeBSD will probably be a better choice: things tend to be more "in one place" (www.freebsd.org), not "all over the Web". There are more commercial Linux applications out there, but many of them run under FreeBSD with linux emulator. If you do decide on Linux, I would strongly recommend against Slackware: Debian is free, and has package management, making upgrades a lot easier. -- Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu ................... PFM: Pray For Miracle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message