Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:38:55 +1000 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Message-ID: <008001bfc97b$a4064d20$95a093cb@timberwolf>
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I've just finished a network admininstration unit at Uni, which involved setting up a unix server. Over the course of 2 weeks, we learned about a lot of things...samba,X,nfs and so on. For better or worse (my vote being for worse), we had to use......Red Hat Linux!!! Well, now that I've actually had a chance to play with linux and freebsd, the conclusion I reach regarding which of the two is better, as far as the newbie/hobbyist sysadmin is concerned is freebsd hands down. How on earth is anyone supposed to make heads or tails out of /etc on a linux box? What with all those /etc/rcX's and so forth... And I must say that also regarding installing software, ports/packages beat RPMS anytime. I find the ports system way more intuitive than the RPM. And the fact that you don't have to explicitly mention that you want dependencies installed also makes life that little bit more sane for newbies like me. <insert comments praising freebsd here> Cheers! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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