From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 23:47:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380EE16A46C for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:47:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bma@gilmour.subvert.org.uk) Received: from jagger.subvert.org.uk (jagger.subvert.org.uk [80.68.88.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B135F13C4B9 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:47:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bma@gilmour.subvert.org.uk) Received: from localhost (jagger.subvert.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) by jagger.subvert.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC0C38320 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:47:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from jagger.subvert.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jagger.subvert.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2QaVJTfdiOQL for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:47:15 +0100 (BST) Received: from gilmour.subvert.org.uk (user-514d9173.l3.c2.dsl.pol.co.uk [81.77.145.115]) (Authenticated sender: bma) by jagger.subvert.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E776E3830F for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:47:14 +0100 (BST) Received: by gilmour.subvert.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5A4CBB899; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:47:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:47:13 +0100 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071022234713.GD2229@gilmour.subvert.org.uk> References: <200710221851.48278.mayank@in.niksun.com> <005501c814da$1b9cdc30$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="veXX9dWIonWZEC6h" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005501c814da$1b9cdc30$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:47:34 -0000 --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 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--