Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:11:57 +0200 From: Robby Balona <Robby@grab.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux? Message-ID: <1193141517.12682.6.camel@robby.entry.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200710231407.34615.mayank@in.niksun.com> References: <200710221851.48278.mayank@in.niksun.com> <005501c814da$1b9cdc30$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> <1193111592.1184.14.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> <200710231407.34615.mayank@in.niksun.com>
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Switch .. switch now and you will love it. i just spent 3 days trying to get unixODBC working on linux... . I got it to work in about 10 min on Freebsd. Freebsd rules... its a slight bit different but it rules. You will never go back once you port something..... On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:07 +0000, Mayank Jain wrote: > Hi > Using freeBSD is more fun. Installing packages and all that is very easy. The > things you can do in LINUX you can surely do with FreeBSD. Collection of > large number of ports and the flexibility to modify anything the way you want > make it cool. Really after installing FreeBSD I had never swithched back to > LINUX. > Hope you will also enjoy working on it. > > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 03:53, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > Donovan, > > > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:33 +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > > > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any > > > ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to > > > make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular which has > > > been written which would be useful to read? > > > > Just my story.. I moved to FreeBSD from Linux five years ago. Shell is > > only thing I felt difficult. But now I am using tcsh instead of bash. > > Aside from that, everything is OK ;; > > > > Sincerely, >
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