From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 20:48:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5A016A401 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:48:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4037C13C467 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:48:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r28so1306661nza for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:48:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=KKm+x7Kcepowf4sJio5aI++DmFkmgabGlYmU9m0yj0qEuXXOJHOzvhX3lIXp7/BrYq1NK+vaYYoMpzhCOPfwHauSIFceuSxwjw6WcgFhCbz67tvjUm6pDdfPxYErGDcdVqYrXx2ff2cXm/bhQ1hsZV0cIyBmAQ0OC9RxxhEYIvA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=izuMGzlJwR2ediQh94bd0YtWEhIq/xIS2/4Ufri4iw9FVopPDb6QhbNFuHStvvie7SiY7j2SY09rTmqw+A0ytQQY2AnoFFrxPzt/SFdT71E3yiODStiHmMYwP7YSs3pFrCstojOdov+lFq/N7/gmShUaJw/keEsgfy7VeUC8RWE= Received: by 10.65.211.1 with SMTP id n1mr7537606qbq.1172954915623; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.210.7 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:48:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <226ae0c60703031248j4aba223br5ba03a12a55f896d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:48:35 -0500 From: "David Robillard" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:48:36 -0000 > If you have a (Free)BSD mindset and like your rc.conf but don't mind > typing "pacman" instead of pkg_* or portupgrade -P * and you don't mind using > something called ABS for src packages, which is like ports, only with a stage > install before live-system install, then you may just like ArchLinux. Yes, I agree with Danny. Arch Linux is as close to FreeBSD that you can get with Linux. I don't run any core business services on it, but a friend does run his webservers on it and so far he's happy. Again, my 0.02 on this topic :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122