Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:47:13 +0100 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@subvert.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux? Message-ID: <20071022234713.GD2229@gilmour.subvert.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <005501c814da$1b9cdc30$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> References: <200710221851.48278.mayank@in.niksun.com> <005501c814da$1b9cdc30$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop>
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--veXX9dWIonWZEC6h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reaso= ns=20 > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or=20 > current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the= =20 > shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular which has been written= =20 > which would be useful to read? Depends, really. For the average desktop user, there's no difference whatsover - Gnome, KDE, etc., are basically identical on both platforms. =46rom an administration point of view, things are in different places - but if you've used more than a couple of GNU/Linux distributions you may have encountered this anyway. The only difficulty I've had is in portability of things like shell scripts and Makefiles between the two; options supported in one version of a program may not always be supported in the other and/or may work differently (this isn't to say BSD is worse, just different). A couple of links: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php --=20 Benjamin A'Lee <bma@subvert.org.uk> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein --veXX9dWIonWZEC6h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHHTaAEUZDNrttL6ARApbeAJ9hzDPlHtqcpoUThON/IfOH9nJSGACbBoQM 7tKXSPuTjYBEO7B1eiOakGw= =1WnN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --veXX9dWIonWZEC6h--
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