Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:21:26 -0500 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20061016212126.GA1312@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <af8b40ce0610161338v1cd9fbbet54bb0660303b1d42@mail.gmail.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <7.0.1.0.0.20061016140214.01938450@totaldiver.net> <4533D22B.2000405@u.washington.edu> <af8b40ce0610161338v1cd9fbbet54bb0660303b1d42@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:38:59PM -0700, William Tracy wrote: > Well, thanks for all the replies. I didn't mean to rub anybody the > wrong way, and if I did, I'm sorry. :-P > > Up until now, I've basically been running FreeBSD more or less like > just another Linux distro, and was beginning to wonder if I was really > missing out on something by doing that. That, and I thought I'd give > the fanboys a chance to praise their pet OS. :-) > > Overall, it sounds like I was on the right track, though. FreeBSD has > its pros and cons, but it's fundamentally just another Unix-like > system. Which is a good thing! ;-) It's not "just another Unix-like system", it _is_ a Unix system. > For the record, I really, really, like Debian (and now Ubuntu). I > understand that there are packages that allow the Debian packaging > system to run on top of the FreeBSD kernel, and I'll definitely have > try that out sometime. > > Anyway, FreeBSD is great, and I'll keep playing with it. :-) > > William -Damian
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