From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 16:42:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1B037B41B for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:40:31 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 879EEBA05; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:40:25 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Raistlin Majere , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:Which Linux for a long-time FreeBSD user? Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:40:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3C93D0AB.6C3618F7@e-raist.com> In-Reply-To: <3C93D0AB.6C3618F7@e-raist.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020319004025.879EEBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 16 March 2002 06:09 pm, Raistlin Majere wrote: I would say that Mandrake and RedHat are, however, about as UNlike FreeBSD as you can get. Slackware's the most similar I've used, but I've not used Debian and others. Of course, nothing's as good as the Real Thing. | Mike, | | I've ran a few version of linux and found I get along with redhat. I | would recommend downloading and installing 7.2 (running a 2.4 kernel) | (lastest version available from www.redhat.com). The kernel and modules | are typically stored in /usr/src/linux, which should help in your work. | Redhat is quite versatile and functional, and makes a decent desktop OS. | | Debian is another flavor I would recommend as by default its more | secure than redhat. I haven't done much with linux for awhile though, | so I'm unfamiliar with what its like these days. | | Good luck! | | Raistlin Alexander Majere | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message