From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 17:07:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09735 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca (hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca [207.107.250.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09728 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grgaud@sprint.ca) Received: from grgaud (spc-isp-ott-uas-13-6.sprint.ca [209.103.35.107]) by hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02658 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808130009.UAA02658@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> From: "GR Gaudreau" To: Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:06:58 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 at 19:52 SAT, Brett Taylor wrote: > Your average Redhat RPM package installs not only the binaries, docs, etc., > but also all the necessary startup files in Redhat's SysV-like /etc/rc.d > tree. IOW, should the newbie admin choose to install "everything" during > system installation, he will also be _running_ everything. > > Anyway, I'm wandering off topic here... Actually, I'm glad you are. What would the difference be with FreeBSD? It would NOT do what RH 5.1 does? -- G.R. Gaudreau grgaud@sprint.ca http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5783/ If a man who is mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message