Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:42:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <root@gits.dyndns.org> To: Akbar <Akbar@Aptitude.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD? Message-ID: <200009191942.e8JJgMc03338@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <89731E9AF92BD411869200D0B71BB4DC0FC297@ASERVER> "from Akbar at Sep 19, 2000 12:29:35 pm"
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Akbar wrote: [snip] > wat is so special about BSD? wat is the major difference between BSD and > Linux?? if its so robust then why is linux so hyped? i am a bit confused. i BSD vs GNU/Linux central development (non central development dor linux boxes) ports system (aka rpm for linux boxes) from my point of view, much more unix philosophy compliant public domain (/usr/local) != userland (/) where linux boxes merges both and many more reasons... > am seeking out a career in security area and i am seriously thinking of > learning 1 unix based OS. and i am stuck. which one would be best to learn?? for security purpose, OpenBSD is well suitable. > linux or BSD?? and how far the knowledge of each OS would allow me to shift > to other OS? i mean, if i learn BSD would be easy for me to program in > Linux? or vice versa?? you'll probably get better habits w/ BSD than w/ GNU/Linux. much better is to follow standards and not to use all those non-standard libraries whatever they are easy to use. so, your programs would runs on many unix flavors. > p.s. if i start to learn BSD which version or distribution is best suited? for x86, FreeBSD 4.1 would be apropriate and have a bigger audience than others BSD (OpenBSD and NetBSD). > (i have programming experience of C, C++ and java and i have worked on Unix > some 3 yrs back) sounds good :) much better is to follow this thread in freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org or freebsd-chat@freebsd.org. CC: positionned. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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