From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 10 11:43: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3243F14E43; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:42:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA16728; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:42:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <199909101842.OAA16728@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: most FreeBSD-like Linux In-Reply-To: from "mgraffam@idsi.net" at "Sep 10, 1999 02:15:28 pm" To: mgraffam@idsi.net Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:42:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org mgraffam@idsi.net once wrote: > > Hi! Being forced into a Linux land by FreeBSD's inability to run on > > my AlphaXL 300, I need to choose a Linux distribution. I'm > > not asking "which is the best one", but "which is the most > > FreeBSD-like"? I put the Debian on so far, and it seems nice, but > > different from FreeBSD... > Well, it depends on what you mean by "FreeBSD-like".. are we talking > system layout, bundled apps, configurabilty, .. ?? It is the layout and configurabilty. > If you want a large number of bundled, free apps, Debian is the way to > go. If you're looking for commercial support, then look at RH.. you > can always compile the free apps yourself. I doubt, those commercial companies who support a particular dist of Linux support Alpha anyway. XiG does not -- as I found out yesterday, for example. I can probably survive any dist, I just don't want to be annoyed too much by it being different from FreeBSD. Thanks! -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message