Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:17:28 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: first install Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020216130909.047cbeb8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020216083130.A888@lymond.lvcablemodem.com>
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At 08:32 2002/02/16 -0800, Dale Morris wrote: >I just moved from linux to freebsd and I'm really pleased with what I >see so far. Things seem to load and execute much faster in freebsd and I >like what I've seen with the freebsd website and the user community. You mention below that you used Slackware and RH---both good distributions for their purpose, but both a bit heavy--that is, including many things which you may never use (one reason you'll see that your FreeBSD will probably boot a lot more quickly.) If you strip either Slack or RH down, or use one of the more minimalist distros, like Gentoo, you'll find that they're almost as fast (I haven't done any serious benchmarking--once, in a dull moment timed startups---FreeBSD was tied with Gentoo Linux---MS Win2k took the longest. :) As for your terminal problems--by any chance are you using an ASUS MB? There have been some problems--apparently (judging from some lackadaisical searches on deja--that were marked as bugs in 4.3 but not fixed. Not sure if it's all ASUS boards or just A7A266---never did get my Voodoo5 card running on that, and even with a fairly generic G200 can only get 1024x768 wit XFree 3.x not 4.x Another thing that Fred mentioned the other day, but that is worth repeating--he first told me this on another list, and I've become a believer--the man pages are far better in FreeBSD. It just seems (to me at least, again subjective, no real benchmark testing) a more powerful O/S, though less tolerant of bad hardware than some Linux distros, as well as more flexible--just a quick, and trivial example---in RH, if you want to unzip a bzip2 file, you do tar -jxvf--in Slack, you do tar -yxvf. Neither will accept the other--that is, if you use the y option in RH, you get unknown option and the same if you use j in Slack. BSD, however, knows both and can use either. As I said, that's just a trivial example, but one does get used to its convenience. It's a lot of fun. Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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