From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 8:20: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729AD37B404 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g07GJux07844; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:19:56 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201071619.g07GJux07844@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Allen May" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake In-Reply-To: <016a01c1976f$1244b020$0401a8c0@Hewey> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 09:19:56 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:33:04 -0500 "Allen May" wrote: +------------------ | I am used to using Mandrake 8.x. I just installed FreeBSD on a test = | machine and find it less intuitive to use. | Can someone explain the big difference between Mandrake and FreeBSD? | | In Mandrake, the current running DAEMON's are in the init.d directory.. = | were are they in FreeBSD? I don't have an /etc/init.d directory. | | I use "locate" a lot.. I could find "locate" on my FreeBSD machine.. = | what's the equivelent? | | Thanks for any info. +------------------ FreeBSD is derived from the BSD strain of unix that comes through the CSRG at UofC at Berkeley. Mandrake comes via the work that Linus Torvolds does for the Linux kernel. Both OSes make heavy use of resources from the GNU project. Locate should be running on your system. The database is updated weekly but you might run the /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb script if you want to update the database now. While packages and ports use a startup system that resembles the SVR4 style FreeBSD itself uses an older style of boot time initialization centered around the /etc/rc.conf and the /etc/rc script. You can read about this in the handbook. Chapter 7 talks about the boot process. Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message