From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 4 10:43:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9494C37B406 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA7228; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:43:28 -0700 Message-ID: <3BBC9FC0.705F0248@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:43:28 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E9lix=2DAntoine?= Paradis Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux meeting in =?iso-8859-1?Q?Qu=E9bec=2E?= References: <20011003222444.V339-100000@idem.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Félix-Antoine Paradis wrote: > > Hey, > > A linux user group in Quebec, Canada, is having a meeting soon. They > want someone to demonstrate the utility/differences between the BSD family > and other linux distributions. I gave my name to do that. Now, i am > looking for some online demonstrations/benchmarking diffs. I got some > arguments, some things to say, but, i just want to hear from you. If > there's any points to push hard, hidden features or great differences. It would depend upon how technical they want the presentation to be. If it were me, I would concentrate on the end-user vantage point. I would compare and contrast: pkg versus rpm/deb ports versus apt-get make buildworld versus making dozens of distinct packages BSD init versus SYSV init different kernel config styles The following points are also good to cover: kernel/environment integration complete documentation as part of the base OS kernel security, jail, etc. mature IPv6 David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message