Re: To freeBSD or not freeBSD
From: Frederick Johnson (frebhed_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 05/17/03
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Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 22:35:11 +1000 (EST) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
--- Trish <failte@sentex.net> wrote: > Hello freebsd-newbies,
>
> I'm wondering why you picked freeBSD over other distros. I'm
> getting ready to build my first Linux box and I admit, I have not fully
> researched all the options yet, but am looking at freeBSD on the
> recommendation of, well, my son. I take him seriously as he is
> already running linux (though not freeBSD as yet - that's his and
> my upcoming project), he and his friends are no slouches at this stuff,
> typical techie teenagers, and have the time to
> do such things. I have less. However, I'm interested in what the
> actual user community has to say.
>
> I get the impression there is significant support available, apps and
> drivers are available and configurable
> and it's not a nightmare to run. But that's just an impression and
> I haven't compared it enough with anything else.
>
> So if anyone cares to venture a point of view, I'd be interested to
> hear it. Thanks! :)
>
> --
> Trish
These topics are killers! I can feel my inbox getting full already...
I have tried Mandrake, Debian and Slackware... neither of them stayed on for
longer than 2 months (for various reasons)... One thing I particularly didnt
like about Linux is whenever I went to configure/mess around with something
(which I did/do a lot) I always got these descriptions saying (blah blah) 'this
is a mix of BSD and systemV, we put some things here and other things here, oh,
and this is something that we designed ourselves over here etc'. I have found
FreeBSD to be very organised and easy to understand, which really suprised
me... I thought being some hardcore UNIX distro meant that only people with an
equally hardcore understanding of UNIX would be able to use it! :) There are
many other things which I dont like about Linux and love about FreeBSD... I
could go on forever about the subject...
I know people say FreeBSD is the fastest, stablest, most functional OS out
there... from what I have experienced so far I am begining to believe them. :)
...is there an advocacy mailing list? :)
Fred
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