Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 02:22:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Machuidel <machuidel@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Retired Linux user wants to switch Message-ID: <20040129102229.85256.qmail@web40912.mail.yahoo.com>
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I've been using Linux for about 7 years. At the beginning the Linux community was still very small and very little people ever heard about it or even knew what is was. Many people called me crazy/stupid/dumb because I wasn't using Windows and told me I would never find a job as a programmer. Now everyone suddenly thinks I'm cool :S and ask if I could install Linux for them. All these years I've seen Linux grow. I helped people on IRC while more and more users were coming with their questions. Yesterday I decided to go back to the IRC channel, after about 4 years, to ask a question about USB (I'm not really into USB). What happened really turned me off. They called me "a troll", that I should "go back to Windows", I'm "too dumb to use Linux" and because I told them "I've been on this channel even before you began using Linux" they kicked me off. This is 1 of the many examples. It may sound weird, but because of what the Linux community has become I would like to try and switch some of my systems over to FreeBSD. First I have some questions about what to expect: Is there any alternative for Shorewall? If not, would it be wise to port it to FreeBSD? Is FreeBSD using PAM by default? Will the combination of pam_ldap + nss_ldap + OpenLDAP work? Can FreeBSD resolve reverse dependecies? Is there something to clean up orphan dependecies? Does FreeBSD have something like SYSV modules (just asking, of course there's kill)? How well does DRM/DRI work in FreeBSD? Is it possible to PXE boot the FreeBSD installation and install from the network (without setting up NFS)? Are there any recommendations for managing a hosting server? Software? Configurations? These were all question for now. I hope the story at the beginning wasn't too much and didn't violate the rules of this forum. Thank you, Mike Machuidel ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
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