From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 15:50:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3DF16A4CF for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.napanet.net (daffy.napanet.net [206.81.96.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0E543D66 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccornils@napanet.net) Received: from pavilion (dialup-napanet-206-81-101-95.napanet.net [206.81.101.95]) by mail.napanet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 76D6261CC for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:50:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <005101c3e530$44d05240$5f6551ce@pavilion> From: "Cal Cornils" To: Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:49:56 -0800 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 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: BSD for Linux Users X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:50:30 -0000 A couple of days ago, I found one of the best discussions I've seen that describes FreeBSD from a Linux user's point of view. It leans certainly toward FreeBSD, but gives Linux a very fair shake. Describes philosophy, release process, development process, the base system, and ports vs RPMs. Take a look and see what you think http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/16/1549222 Cal Cornils Beautiful (but rainy) Napa CA