From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 12:38:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6A816A468 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Robby@grab.co.za) Received: from qmail.entry.co.za (pdns.entry.co.za [196.211.91.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4528B13C465 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:38:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Robby@grab.co.za) Received: (qmail 7650 invoked by uid 1011); 23 Oct 2007 12:21:10 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.33 by qmail.entry.co.za (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/4545. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.33):. Processed in 0.0461 secs); 23 Oct 2007 12:21:10 -0000 X-Antivirus-qmail.entry.co.za-Mail-From: robby@grab.co.za via qmail.entry.co.za X-Antivirus-qmail.entry.co.za: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.33):. Processed in 0.0461 secs Process 7645) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.33?) (192.168.1.33) by qmail.entry.co.za with SMTP; 23 Oct 2007 12:21:10 -0000 From: Robby Balona To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Grab ISP Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:11:57 +0200 Message-Id: <1193141517.12682.6.camel@robby.entry.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Robby@grab.co.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:38:20 -0000 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, >