From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 18 15:32: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F220E37B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2539E43F75 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:32:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18lHDS-0006Q2-00; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:31:58 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1INVwPe086625; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:31:58 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1INVs0V086624; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:31:54 GMT Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:31:53 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Linh Pham Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD architecture over Linux? Message-ID: <20030218233153.GA86542@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20030215054352.GC35069@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> <20030216043304.GA59311@q.closedsrc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030216043304.GA59311@q.closedsrc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18lHDS-0006Q2-00*6qujmMl/q3k* Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:33:04PM -0800, Linh Pham wrote: : With Linux, the location of config files, startup files and services : can differ greatly from one distribution to another. Which means that if : you had worked primarily in RedHat at one place then moved somewhere : else that used Debian or SuSE, you'd have to re-learn some of the : differences and nuances. : : With FreeBSD, it's one distribution and there is a standard (or at least : recommendation) of where to place startup scripts (/usr/local/etc/rc.d) : or config files (/etc or /usr/local/etc). Of course, that may not hold : when you move from FreeBSD to OpenBSD or NetBSD... Interesting you should mention that. When I started with Linux, I tried RH and Mandrake. Then, after a few shutdowns that oddly destroyed my filesystem, I found a critical update of the Linux runlevel startup scripts. There was apparently a bug that, if the cdrom was mounted, trashed / on shutdown. Nice, eh? I wondered how in the world *startup* and *shutdown* scripts could be so easily screwed up. I never did find out why, because the Mandrake update system left me uncertain of whether it correctly got the dependencies or not. So, I jettisoned Linux and installed FreeBSD. :-) Thanks for your thoughts, Linh and Haikal Jonathon -- "The spice must flow...." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message