From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 30 19:18: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jodeit.com (mail.jodeit.com [207.10.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E59337B50B for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdennyj [207.10.131.111] by mail.jodeit.com (SMTPD32-6.06) id A64A13440048; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:06:50 -0500 Message-ID: <001801c191aa$a2b1be70$6f830acf@gdennyj> From: "Denny Jodeit" To: "ecflynn" Cc: References: <000801c191a5$d79b11e0$4870f7a5@SONYVAIO> Subject: Re: linux to bsd Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:24:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >from what i hear bsd is light years ahead of linux and bsd also has alot more to offer in terms of applications and >such. Is this true and is everything virtually the same as linux and everything i have for linux will it run on bsd? I >don't mind changes here an there but will it be like switching from windows to linux for the first time in a sense or >no? I'll give my opinion in laymen's terms a) writing start up scripts for FreeBSD is easier b) for adding applications and services, the ports collection alone makes FreeBSD light years ahead of all flavors of Linux.....installing and uninstalling apps are a cinch and usually work first attempt c) as far as commands and results from them, there is literally no difference between FreeBSD and Linux, because both operating system platforms use the same shells d) if you have a stable broadband connection, all you need to install FreeBSD is a pair of floppies, one with the kern.flp image written to it, and the other with the mfs.flp image written to it. Both are available via FTP from www.freebsd.org , along with the rawrite program which will write the images to floppy for you. Boot your system to these floppies and the Setup begins. After numerous config questions, the setup asks you your install method. Choose FTP and off you go. About 2 hrs. later, you have FreeBSD installled......no CD's or floppies required. I went with Mandrake first, then RedHat, then Slackware. If you've ever used Slackware at all, it's the closest I've seen to FreeBSD. Denny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message