From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 6: 8:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCE215382 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 06:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id JAA16440; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:08:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA28962; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:59:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:59:22 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Printed man pages (was: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD , edition: , question) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote: > Unix. A 'play' with Linux was to be my way of regaining some Unix > expertise, but something just doesn't sit right with Linux for me. I > too earn a living doing NT stuff (SMS, SQL, etc. etc.) and I'd like a > mix. I plan to use FreeBSD as a mail/web gateway at home - if that > doesn't force me to get to grips with the O/S, nothing will! Clem - I learned vi by having deadlines and no other editor. ;-) Nowadays I have pine reset (on all boxes) to run vi implicitly as the alt editor...because I keep trying to run vi cmds in pico! I think your strategy for learning BSD is a good one. > Starter books for FreeBSD are probably a waste of time, but I also > believe that something intermediate is required. As for appealing to > Linux/Unix wannabes, well it's fine to use Linux as a > bandwagon/conduit, but if users then want to 'mature' and migrate to Responding to your above notion (flame bait, big guy?) I would say that Linux sits rather well with me for some sysv stuff. I run SQL databases on it, as well as PROGRESS databases (under ibcs2 emulation). I use BSD for mail delivery, etc. It is my bias that Linux does a better job with my database apps than BSD does, but they are rather close. The Linux ibcs2 definitely performs better for running my SCO apps... I have tried the various Linux distributions and Slackware is the most to my liking. It is streamlined and Patrick will not add a package until it is tested (well, usually ;-). This is not the case with RedHat. In private conversations (where a pint of bitter may loosen the tongue) I sometimes equate RedHat with MicroSoft...obviously this is not entirely accurate but Mr. Barnes is rather more concerned with marketing than quality control. At least this is the conclusion I've reached. I would say that anybody who wants to learn standard unix can't go too far wrong with Slackware *or* FreeBSD. Can't comment on SuSe or Debian although some of my most serious colleagues swear by Debian. The only thing about Slackware that I don't like is the unusual paths to things like Apache conf files... :-( I can recommend *against* UnixWare. Even Solaris is a better choice. (Even minix is a better choice!) No comment on NT. Or whatever its called this week - is 2000 the retail price (per seat?) or the version number?? :-) Good luck with flattening your learning curve! Tom ---- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center Thomas Good Information Systems Coordinator E-Mail: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 Empowered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message