From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Sep 19 12:43:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lafontaine.cybercable.fr (lafontaine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF8B737B423 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16146938 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2000 19:42:25 -0000 Received: from r227m167.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([195.132.227.167]) (envelope-sender ) by lafontaine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Sep 2000 19:42:25 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8JJgMc03338; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:42:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) From: Cyrille Lefevre Message-Id: <200009191942.e8JJgMc03338@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD? In-Reply-To: <89731E9AF92BD411869200D0B71BB4DC0FC297@ASERVER> "from Akbar at Sep 19, 2000 12:29:35 pm" To: Akbar Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:42:20 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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-ports" in the body of the message