From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 29 9: 1:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEDE37BBF7 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 09:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA35019; Mon, 29 May 2000 10:59:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <008001bfc97b$a4064d20$95a093cb@timberwolf> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:59:16 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Haikal Saadh Subject: RE: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-May-00 Haikal Saadh wrote: > 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. I couldn't agree with you more! I've tried Red Hat on a couple of occasions, just on the outside chance that there really *was* something to it that made it worth all the attention it's been getting. Bleah! Just like you, I think the /etc arrangement is downright insane. Trying to find the relevant file(s) for a certain feature is an exercise in madness and frustration. And I also find the RPM system a real pain-in-the-you-know-what to deal with. FreeBSD, by comparison, seems the perfect model of logic and order. Poor Red Hat users! I pity them. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message