From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 21:16:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.rdc1.on.home.com (femail2.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD3D37B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from latif2221@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.114.36.13]) by femail2.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010312051614.LWUA606.femail2.rdc1.on.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:16:14 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAC57DE.FF1715C0@home.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:14 -0500 From: Duraid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Storm , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG go for it ... it's even easier to install linux applications on freebsd than linux... everything you need is under /usr/ports ... just for the beginning my advice is to download a stable-release (4.2 for now 4.3 a week or so ...not much difference.. for a newbie kde2.1 maybe) and stick with it don't upgrade untill you get a grip on the system. if you hear any thing about rpms they are a big mess and such a non-standard standard. Duraid Tony Storm wrote: > Thanks for the advice. There are SO many different options. It becomes a > bit overwhelming for a newbie. I just want to get started with a good > system. I thought about doing a dual boot, but haven't decided. Are there > as many applications available for FreeBSD? or does freebsd run everything > that linux runs. > > My primary goal is to learn how to secure a network. > > - Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: duraid [mailto:duraid]On Behalf Of Duraid > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 7:53 PM > To: Tony Storm; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD > > go with freebsd .. when you ask questions you only get one answer.. > linux is not like that .. when you ask a linux question everybody goes > ...oh well! it depends... not because they don't want to help but this > is the truth ... linux comes with different flavors and gives different > solutions to different problems... and this is very confusing to a > newbie... even if would like to choose linux don't go with redhat > because you won't understand why all the fuss around linux.. it's not > REALLY stable and not easy to use and with ton's of bugs.. why not use > windows then?.. go with slackware (slackware.com). > > Duraid To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message