Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:23:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Tony Vickers <tony@imnetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which BSD Message-ID: <20020319002313.GA378@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <web-1561843@imnetworks.com> References: <web-1561843@imnetworks.com>
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On 2002-03-18 16:01, Tony Vickers wrote:
> I would like to thank the guys that answered my question about SM{P, Thanks! We
> are going to move forward with BSD. But THE question still needs to be answered.
> I do not want to start a flame war on between the BSDs,and or linux or should I
> say GNU-linux but I need to know which BSD is best. Thanks for the help.
That heavily depends on what you plan to do with it, your personal
preference/taste and other factors that we (the list, as a group of
individuals who can and do have differing opinions about the BSDs) can not
guess for you, and force upon you.
Your best bet would be to do a bit of research, and decide for yourself :)
Start by writing down, and trying to understand what you will be doing with
that BSD. Requirements is half of the research. Then, search at the web
pages of the various BSDs. You will most certainly find a wealth of
information there. If you still don't know if some of your requirements
are supported by one of the BSDs, here's the place to ask (i.e. in email).
Dig the mailing list archives[1] first, and see if you can find something.
Then, do post any questions about FreeBSD you might have. There are many
knowledgeable posters that lurk these lists. But you need to ask a less
vague question to get answers that have something useful in them. The
question has to 'show' that you did your part of research, and now want to
know if this little feature that you deem important is supported by the
specific breed of BSD.
I hope this helps, although I deliberately tried to avoid answering
"FoobarBSD is the best". This is something that you have to decide :)
Cheers,
[1] The http://groups.google.com/ interface is a charm for searching the
mailing list archives of FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. I use it almost
daily to search for stuff that I know I have seen pass through my
mailboxes, but have deleted long ago.
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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