Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:55:14 -0800 (PST) From: <czr@dunces.org> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mikael Claesson <miclaes@hotmail.com>, <FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Switching from Linux Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102080754150.3087-100000@dunces.org> In-Reply-To: <001b01c091e3$51d3e9a0$0100a8c0@warhawk>
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redhat isnt the best stick to do your measuring with though. Ive used slackware for quite a while now and I like it as much as FreeBSD anyday. Debian is a nice package as well.... Burke On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Haikal Saadh wrote: > FWIW, I've tried redhat6.2, and while I know freebsd better than > I know linux. /etc under freebsd makes more sense to me than > /etc on linux. I hate all those runlevels and stuff...normal mode and > single user mode are all I need. I like to think of single user mode > as analogous to the Windows 'safe' mode, but without the annoying > reboot to get in or out of it. > > Also, fbsd's installation, while not as pretty, did the job better than > a RH default install.....you can't even find ifconfig with that thing.... > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nik Clayton" <nik@freebsd.org> > To: "Mikael Claesson" <miclaes@hotmail.com> > Cc: <FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: Switching from Linux > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +1100, Mikael Claesson wrote: > > > I've been using Linux as a desktop system for some time now, but I'm > getting > > > interested in BSD. What you should have is a big fat link on your front > page > > > that reads "Using Linux? Wanna switch?" and a nice section on the > > > differences a resular user would need to know. > > > > I have been asking, for roughly the past three years, for any of our > > users who are already familiar with Linux, and have made the switch, to > > write something like this. > > > > So far, no one's volunteered. Actually, that's not true. Several > > people have volunteered, and then never produced anything. > > > > I would be over the moon if someone who knows a Linux distribution would > > make a start on this. Any takers? > > > > N (Doc. Project Manager) > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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