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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:51:13 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?
Message-ID:  <20071023175113.GB54356@demeter.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <13413b8f0710230601q4d216296wbd1c51c0de47a8fa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:01:41PM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:33 +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of
> > > > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any
> > > > ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to
> > > > make the shift from Linux?  Is there anything in particular which has
> > > > been written which would be useful to read?
> 
> And you can say that with FreeBSD you get a stable system as Debian
> GNU/Linux is _and_ you get a source based system as Gentoo GNU/Linux.

In my experience, it's both more stable and more up to date than Debian.
Before FreeBSD, my primary OS choice was Debian, but ultimately
everything I liked about Debian was even better with FreeBSD.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."



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