Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:07:39 -0500 From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: James Hicks <ytwok_karate@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity Message-ID: <20030110160739.GA12170@AndrewNg.com> In-Reply-To: <20030110064747.T31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de> References: <F141Ud9mTP2vZXqimrM00000d34@hotmail.com> <20030110064747.T31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
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--fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de> wrote: > And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup > FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself. that's not really true, the RH installer is a lot easier to use for most ppl than sysinstall. for some reason I prefer sysinstall though, probably becau= se I used to install NetBSD with their textbased installer and never had a problem with it. and James, also look into Gentoo, they got some interesting ideas, and Gent= oo developers and users are usually more knowlegeable than other disto. I have RH8 at work and I hate it, it looks pretty with their Bluecurve theme and t= he nice fonts with xft2, but it's so bloated, my fbsd laptop with half the MHz count runs faster than this RH8 workstation. of the main disto's Debian is probably the best. Gentoo is closer to BSD and I like it the most. the biggest "problem" of running fbsd is probably the lack of support with some commercial software like Ximian Connector, VMWare (as "host OS"), etc.= =20 but I don't need those on my personal laptop or servers and what are in the port collection is more than sufficient. check out the handbook and the FAQ on freebsd.org, you will find more than enough information. /ayn > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, James Hicks wrote: >=20 > > To whom it may concern, > > My name is James. I'm a junior college graduate with an A.S. degree in > > Computer Applications. I took a class in UNIX about a year ago. The os = we > > used was Mandrake Linux. I've learned to like Red Hat and have version = 8.0 > > on my home machine. I have been doing a lot of reading in magazines like > > pcmagazine and sought info online using sources like the freebsd homepa= ge, > > zdnet, cnet, etc. I'm hearing alot of your UNIX os. I have a few questi= ons > > about the system. First of all, is freebsd a real UNIX? By that I'm as= king > > whether or not there is real UNIX code in it or is it a clone just like > > linux is? Second, what type of file system does it use? Does it have a > > journaling one like ext3? Do UNIX systems require any kind of defrag? I= was > > told by my UNIX instructor that freebsd had hardware recognition troubl= e. Is > > this true and if so has it been fixed? I have also read that a lot of > > sysadmins are nervous of putting mission critical apps on a enterprise = linux > > system and prefer to use freebsd. What is the problem that I'm hearing = that > > linux has? Do you believe the berkeley system to have code that has bet= ter > > stability than the GNU systems? I look forward to your reply. Thanks > > > > James Hicks > > ytwok_karate@hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3D3963 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >=20 > *-----------------------------------* > * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * > * - Wuppertal - * > * Germany * > *-----------------------------------* >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 andrew y ng <ayn@andrewng.com> http://andrewng.com gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 9BFC594C fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c=20 --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj4e78sACgkQvtjogpv8WUyNPQCgnPeJRjbUnmMr4F8EiBF19iAh y0EAoLgnCDulXX6g6jYbZFd+cpARdp92 =pIe0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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