From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 11:24:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DB216A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 11:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (sea1-f64.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B7443D41 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 11:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 12 May 2004 11:24:52 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:24:52 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] X-Sender: crollins666@hotmail.com From: "clayton rollins" To: mosborne@cbu.edu Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:24:52 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2004 18:24:52.0990 (UTC) FILETIME=[6B2C81E0:01C4384E] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Need advice/direction picking a distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:24:54 -0000 On May 12, 2004 "mosborne" wrote: > >Hi all, with the start of the summer here I am going to have >a little more time on my hands and was wanting to dig into a >new distro. Up until now I haven't had a lot of time so I >have just been running man9.1 and I was now thinking about >making the jump to Debian or even one of the BSD's. What >I've been looking for on the net and can't seem to find is a >good review of the pros/cons of a linux distro like Debian >vs. say freeBSD/openBSD. They all seem to have a great >informative community and thats what makes the decision >harder. Please try not too be too biased in your reply. ;] >thx, m. > Though it's a little biased (but, hey, what'd you expect? of course we like this OS.), I liked this flier: http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html Google turned up some interesting items as well: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=linux+bsd+comparison Regards, Clayton Rollins _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/