From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 29 22:15:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from radius.city-guide.com (radius.cityisp.net [216.2.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EA537BD88 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 22:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@cityisp.net) Received: from cityisp.net (dialup1.cityisp.net [216.5.38.19]) by radius.city-guide.com (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 May 2000 01:26:11 -0400 Message-ID: <39334F76.E6EC6B39@cityisp.net> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 01:19:50 -0400 From: Chris Lync X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Haikal Saadh Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) References: <008001bfc97b$a4064d20$95a093cb@timberwolf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Haikal Saadh wrote: > > 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... > The best thing about FreeBSD is that the file system is so logical. Why search rc.to-hell-and-back just to find out how to alias an ip... or whatever. FreeBSD would be a better introduction to unix than the other trys. Yeah, so what, so I have to work at compiling that damned Linux binary... eventually, more people will end up towards FreeBSD, and we'll have the nice programs Red Hat will run out of the box (like sndconfig, but having learned the hard way-which actually is easier that the mentioned program...you edit a text file...damn, that's too much trouble). One day all the lame jokes from MCSE's and Linux users about FreeBSD will be completely gone (trust me, I hear them all day long while at work...the best thing being I'm running nameservers on FreeBSD, and another company I work for has converted 10 HIGH-TRAFFIC customers from NT and Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is the best thing since Easter...but, FreeBSD is the best thing since Christmas. High-Traffic means over 30Mbps, not bad from my experience (being that I mean the average box is using 30 per second). I'm a newbie. If you are new, and you think shit sucks (oops), just remember that Unix is a path, not a quick fix. The time you spend with it, you get back 100 times...it just takes time. Off note, if you try real hard you can end up making $$$ using FreeBSD, just in case that ever crosses your mind. That actually doesn't compare to the constant learning you get from trying something. At least the internet is available, so questions get answered... Anyways, Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message