From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 14:41:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E6C16A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:41:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3448143D1F for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from micheal@tsgincorporated.com) Received: from dredster ([68.12.79.37]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040124224120.CMCA2432.lakemtao07.cox.net@dredster>; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:41:20 -0500 Message-ID: <156b01c3e2cb$4c1c56f0$0201a8c0@dredster> From: "Micheal Patterson" To: , References: <200401232340.40104.bsd@elkins.org> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:41:12 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Why BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:41:23 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Guardiani" To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:26 PM Subject: Re: Why BSD? > Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > This is not a troll. > > > > I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, > > updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's > > equivilent to my Debian sid. > > > > I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? > > > > Honest question. > > For me, this question has been answered twice in different attempts to "give > linux a try". I'm a Sys Admin, and we run FreeBSD almost exclusively at work. > However, every new employee we hire walks into the building with an attitude > that Linux is somehow better than FreeBSD because they're heard so much about > it and haven't heard anything about FreeBSD. So, on two separate occasions, I > decided to "give linux a try". Both ended miserably: For me, this is what severely soured my stomach to Linux. I ran Redhat quite a few years ago for about 3 months. Granted, it wasn't as easy as it is now. This version had no gui installer and you had to know the ftp site location to point the installer to back then. FreeBSD wasn't much easier at the time as I recall so that was not really an issue. Well, I then I decided that I wanted to learn bind. But the OS version of course wasn't current so I went and grabbed the rpm for my version of linux that was current. I then went to uninstall the existing system bind portion and it gave an error that permission was denied. I was logged in from console as root, and it wouldn't allow me to uninstall it, nor would it allow me to install over it or upgrade it. So, I blew it away. -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration TSG Incorporated 405-917-0600