From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 16 11: 2:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from relay.Boerde.DE (relay.boerde.de [213.187.87.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8B037B402 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by relay.Boerde.DE with smtp id m16c9q0-000U1UC (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:45:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:45:32 +0100 (CET) From: Frank Reppin To: Scott Cc: Dale Morris , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: first install In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020216130909.047cbeb8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Scott wrote: > You mention below that you used Slackware and RH---both good distributions > for their purpose, but both a bit heavy--that is, including many things > which you may never use (one reason you'll see that your FreeBSD will > probably boot a lot more quickly.) If you strip either Slack or RH down, > or use one of the more minimalist distros, like Gentoo, you'll find that Hello, i don't want to put this into a new thread.... but does anybody know where i can review some 'newer' comparisons between FreeBSD-4.x and Linux. So far i only found a quite outdated webpage 'bout this topic. Thanks, Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message