Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:14 -0500 From: Duraid <latif2221@home.com> To: Tony Storm <tplastics@hanginbrain.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Message-ID: <3AAC57DE.FF1715C0@home.com> References: <OKEAKKNFICBNKGIIFNFNMEMCCGAA.tplastics@hanginbrain.com>
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go for it ... it's even easier to install linux applications on freebsd than linux... everything you need is under /usr/ports ... just for the beginning my advice is to download a stable-release (4.2 for now 4.3 a week or so ...not much difference.. for a newbie kde2.1 maybe) and stick with it don't upgrade untill you get a grip on the system. if you hear any thing about rpms they are a big mess and such a non-standard standard. Duraid Tony Storm wrote: > Thanks for the advice. There are SO many different options. It becomes a > bit overwhelming for a newbie. I just want to get started with a good > system. I thought about doing a dual boot, but haven't decided. Are there > as many applications available for FreeBSD? or does freebsd run everything > that linux runs. > > My primary goal is to learn how to secure a network. > > - Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: duraid [mailto:duraid]On Behalf Of Duraid > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 7:53 PM > To: Tony Storm; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD > > go with freebsd .. when you ask questions you only get one answer.. > linux is not like that .. when you ask a linux question everybody goes > ...oh well! it depends... not because they don't want to help but this > is the truth ... linux comes with different flavors and gives different > solutions to different problems... and this is very confusing to a > newbie... even if would like to choose linux don't go with redhat > because you won't understand why all the fuss around linux.. it's not > REALLY stable and not easy to use and with ton's of bugs.. why not use > windows then?.. go with slackware (slackware.com). > > Duraid To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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