From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 16 13: 8:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from diligence.com (diligence.com [216.166.138.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4018737B400 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22142 invoked by uid 535); 16 Feb 2002 14:08:41 -0700 Received: from tim@diligence.com by pdc.diligence.com with qmail-scanner-0.94 (. Clean. Processed in 0.874691 secs); 02/16/2002 14:08:40 Received: from unknown (HELO tim2) (216.166.138.76) by pdc.diligence.com with SMTP; 16 Feb 2002 14:08:37 -0700 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020216140026.00a4b1e0@mail.diligence.com> X-Sender: tuckun@mail.diligence.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:10:41 -0800 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tim Uckun Subject: Re: first install In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020216130909.047cbeb8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 >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So far i only found a quite outdated webpage 'bout this topic. As a person who recently installed my first freebsd I would like this as well. It seems to me though that it's pretty much a subjective thing. I have experience with debian, redhat and now freebsd. They each have their strengths and weaknesses. I use Red Hat on my laptop because it supports the sound cards and the video cards so well, I use debian on a server or two. I am currently migrating some of the production servers to freebsd. I chose freebsd for production servers for one reason only. Debian stable is too old, debian unstable and testing are too unstable. I am thinking that freebsd is updated more frequently then debian stable and is just as stable (if not more so). I have no real performance demands on these machines and none of them are running X so those things don't concern me. So far so good. I have had problems with one port (cvsd) which installed in a non working condition. According to my research cvsd is now considered "obsolete" and people prefer ssh tunneling for cvs access. I probably still need to get pserver working for the wincvs people but I am sure there is a solution someplace. One nice thing about freebsd was the the apache server denied access to CVS directories by default (it's the little things that count the most). Like I said so far so good. I am going to try configuring a firewall this weekend on my home machine (which I also converted to freebsd) so I have my fingers crossed. In nutshell. Freebsd and Linux are sufficiently different as to render most comparisons invalid. It's an apples to oranges thing IMHO. ---------------------------------------------- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. ---------------------------------------------- "There are some who call me TIM?" ---------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message