RE: Need advice/direction picking a distro

From: clayton rollins (crollins666_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/12/04

  • Next message: Johnson David: "Re: Need advice/direction picking a distro" 
    To: mosborne@cbu.edu
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:24:52 +0000

    On May 12, 2004 "mosborne" <mosborne@cbu.edu> wrote:
    >
    >Hi all, with the start of the summer here I am going to have
    >a little more time on my hands and was wanting to dig into a
    >new distro. Up until now I haven't had a lot of time so I
    >have just been running man9.1 and I was now thinking about
    >making the jump to Debian or even one of the BSD's. What
    >I've been looking for on the net and can't seem to find is a
    >good review of the pros/cons of a linux distro like Debian
    >vs. say freeBSD/openBSD. They all seem to have a great
    >informative community and thats what makes the decision
    >harder. Please try not too be too biased in your reply. ;]
    >thx, m.
    >

    Though it's a little biased (but, hey, what'd you expect? of
    course we like this OS.), I liked this flier:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html

    Google turned up some interesting items as well:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=linux+bsd+comparison

    Regards,
    Clayton Rollins

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