From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 29 7:28:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bne003m.webcentral.com.au (horizon3.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20BC537BC38 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 07:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 1063 invoked from network); 29 May 2000 14:28:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.160.149) by horizon3.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 29 May 2000 14:28:22 -0000 Message-ID: <008001bfc97b$a4064d20$95a093cb@timberwolf> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: Subject: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:38:55 +1000 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've just finished a network admininstration unit at Uni, which involved setting up a unix server. Over the course of 2 weeks, we learned about a lot of things...samba,X,nfs and so on. For better or worse (my vote being for worse), we had to use......Red Hat Linux!!! Well, now that I've actually had a chance to play with linux and freebsd, the conclusion I reach regarding which of the two is better, as far as the newbie/hobbyist sysadmin is concerned is freebsd hands down. How on earth is anyone supposed to make heads or tails out of /etc on a linux box? What with all those /etc/rcX's and so forth... And I must say that also regarding installing software, ports/packages beat RPMS anytime. I find the ports system way more intuitive than the RPM. And the fact that you don't have to explicitly mention that you want dependencies installed also makes life that little bit more sane for newbies like me. Cheers! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message