From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 03:10:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04138 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 03:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA04130 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 03:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z6Xr3-0007mp-00; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:10:05 +0200 Message-ID: <19980812121005.A29910@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:10:05 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Brett Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Mail-Followup-To: Brett Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199808120016.UAA14804@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brett Taylor on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 07:52:28PM -0600 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 at 19:52 SAT, Brett Taylor wrote: > > Of course we'll say FreeBSD! :-) The only experience I have w/ Redhat > wasn't a particularly good one, but much of that can be blamed on the sys > admin. RH was installed here as a dept server. I believe (and was told > by our WinDoZe person) that he did a basic standard install. That > standard install had a HUGE number of things running that didn't need to > be, ie: > > innd (a news server - we weren't a news server!) > httpd (we had no web pages on this machine!) > gopherd (a gopher server - does anyone use gopher anymore?) > bootpd (no machines were booting off this machine) Your average Redhat RPM package installs not only the binaries, docs, etc., but also all the necessary startup files in Redhat's SysV-like /etc/rc.d tree. IOW, should the newbie admin choose to install "everything" during system installation, he will also be _running_ everything. Anyway, I'm wandering off topic here... -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message