From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 12:57: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com (msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com [65.25.230.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E55137B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:56:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id 2310D28611; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:56:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:56:46 -0600 From: Goblin To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: "Keyes, Randall" , "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" , "'feedback@linux.com'" Subject: Re: I need to learn UNIX --- Free BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <20010111145646.A15548@msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from alex@wnm.net on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:16:40PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all... On 01/11, Alex Charalabidis rearranged the electrons to read: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Keyes, Randall wrote: > > > I need to learn UNIX for my employer. I intend to do this at home. I have > > an 18-gig hard drive that I intend to install Windows 2000 server on as the > > primary OS. I would also like to dual boot with either Linux or FreeBSD to > > learn UNIX. > > > > Questions: > > 1. In reality, which OS is closer to AIX/Solaris/other System V in > > administration commands? > > Differences in the command set are generally minor. You'll find Linux to > be more System V-like. Of course I'd recommend FreeBSD for religious > reasons, but you probably want Linux first. The reasons for learning FreeBSD in preparation for commercial adminning are more than religious. One in particular is that Vinum is closer to Solaris's LVM (Veritas). Linux's LVM is very HP-UX like, but not as functional, unless combigned with MD. Linux, on the other hand, is more SysV like, and runs on a Sun. ;) Bottom line, I suggest everyone get intimately familiar with both, concurrently. > > 2. Will your OS dual-boot with W2K Server? > > > > Question should be whether Win2K will dual boot with them. :) > > Both can do it. In fact, it's perfectly possible to install all three. Use GRUB and all will be grubbily perfect. Follow these steps: Install W2K, use Partition Magic to smallify your W2K 'tition. Install Mandrake Linux on some of the remaining space, using grub as the boot manager in the boot sector. Don't use more than two primary partitions for linux, or you won't have one left for FBSD (Maybe SuSe has grub too.. I don't know. SuSe is pretty damn good, though) Install FBSD on the remaining space. (Can someone help me with the booteasy considerations here? It's been a long while since I installed the Free Beasty) Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message