Re: Which BSD?

From: David Douthitt (ssrat_at_mailbag.com)
Date: 11/06/03

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    On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:43:09 GMT, pakrat@localhost.private.neotoma.org
    wrote:

    >On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 03:37:41 +0000 in
    > <pan.2003.10.07.03.37.33.692238@despammed.com>
    > Chris <garbagedisposal@despammed.com> wrote:

    >> I'm currently on a Linux Distro but getting sick of rpm / library conflict
    >> madness.

    >Quit trying to install random RPMs that you find off the street.
    >Seriously, more screwed up systems come from folks that think that
    >because they are running RHAT or another RPM based distribution that
    >they can install any RPM they find.

    Agreed.

    However, if the RPM doesn't match the libraries you need, recompile
    it. Recompiling an RPM from a source RPM isn't all that hard.

    >> Been thiniking of switching to a BSD.
    >> Which is most appropriate for a general purpose desktop/workstation?

    You don't need to switch to BSD to get away from library issues. I
    almost never have such problems, and using apt-get you get all of that
    handled for you.

    Apt-get is available for RPMs as well as natively for Debian.

    On top of that, there is Gentoo - which offers the FreeBSD-style
    Portage tree (like the FreeBSD ports tree) - that is, build everything
    you need just for your system.

    Having said all that, you can't go wrong with BSD either. FreeBSD is
    the most widely used and has the most software; OpenBSD is possibly
    the most secure. The NetBSD project sums it up in their slogan: "Of
    course it runs NetBSD!" - 39 different hardware architectures as of
    NetBSD 1.6.1.

    Note that none of the BSDs offer a slick user-friendly graphical
    "geewhiz" installation. However, if you can install Slackware or
    Gentoo you can certainly install any of the BSDs.

    One benefit: the BSD kernel seems to be leaner than the Linux kernel -
    I routinely am able to run BSD in places where a Linux system won't
    fit - like in 8M of memory....

    David Douthitt (david@douthitt.net)
    UNIX System Administrator
    HP-UX, Unixware, Linux
    Linux+, LPIC-1

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