Re: Leaving FreeBSD for Linux - Please Don't Hurt Me

From: Chris Conn (cmc3list-bsd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/05/05

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To: FreeBSD Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>

    I use both... Slackware Linux 10 on a dual boot PII (with
    Win98) and FreeBSD 5.3 on a standalone PIII. I started
    with FreeBSD 2.4 because somebody at work (AIX Technical
    Support) said I should try it and that it was a lot like
    AIX. A couple of years later I added a Slackware partition
    on the PII and then eventually got this standalone box for
    FreeBSD. I have a lot of respect for Patrick and the job
    he does with Slackware and the community is great too.

    Practically I use my FreeBSD box because one of the kids
    (out of 3) is always dominating the Win98 part of the PII
    and this box is mine mine mine :-). My setup is almost
    identical on both boxes, using Window Maker as my desktop
    and running most of the same stuff. The other box has a
    bigger monitor and more disk space, but I'm planning on
    doubling the memory in this one from 256 to 512MB. And
    I'd like to add a DVD drive to this box too, catch up
    on some of my movies (since the kids dominate the TV too).

    This isn't a conflict to me... I support AIX (so that's
    my professional OS) and my recreational OS's are FreeBSD
    and Linux. With this caveat: if Slackware weren't around
    I don't know if I would spend much time with Linux. I chose
    it because I find it very much like FreeBSD. I have
    friends at work who use Gentoo and like it, and there are
    a lot of IBM DeveloperWorks papers that are written based
    on Gentoo.

    BTW if I may make a shameless plug, as someone said earlier :-)

    I have a small FreeBSD Users list, trying to build up our
    membership a little. We have about 40 members now and it's
    small and informal, would like to get more people onboard.
    Topics are open, chat or technical, whatever. Sign up if you're
    interested, newbies are welcome. It's a bunch of FreeBSD users
    who get together, not part of (or meant to compete with) the
    regular FreeBSD lists. Here's the link:

    http://www.whee.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-users 

    -- 
Chris Conn
http://storm.cadcam.iupui.edu/~cmcgoat
Austin, Texas, USA
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