From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 10:55:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D5B16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA20A43D2D for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:4950 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AieYD-0004w6-3G; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:55:05 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:48:01 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDN3DQXW; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:46:56 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Linh Pham Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:53:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040118014215.GA60548@q.internal.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040118014215.GA60548@q.internal.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401191053.07027.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AieYD-0004w6-3G*rdzUy2xZ31w* cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reply to V. Velox & questions about ``evangelism'' X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:55:20 -0000 On Saturday 17 January 2004 05:42 pm, Linh Pham wrote: > The other key points that I like to mention about FreeBSD include: > > Standardized file system and directory hierarchy > (fairly) common configuration file locations across installs > > when compared to the numerous Linux distributions. > > In almost all cases (when applications and services are installed via > Ports or packages), configuration files and file locations are the > same across all installs. No more trying to find out where Apache > configs are located between Linux distributions... ditto for OpenSSH, > dhclient, BIND, and not to mention, various MTAs. > > I guess it can be folded into ease of administration... :) I don't know if this would be useful when discussing FreeBSD with Linux users. They're already used to every distribution having different locations for everything. To them FreeBSD is going to have yet another set of locations, making it no different than another distro. I would keep this discussion, but alter it to emphasize that the file locations are "standard" across the various BSDs, follow the FHS, and aren't "link farms". David