Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:31:26 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD Article in Information Security Magazine Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010611201844.017ea038@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <3B25368F.7F442491@acuson.com> References: <3B25310D.2E6571B@globalstar.com>
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My first exposure to FreeBSD was similar. I had a Walnut Creek magazine that had Slackware Linux and FreeBSD 2.0 on facing pages. The commentary suggested that both were more difficult that Windows, but that FreeBSD was really for more advanced users. Wanting to be in the latter group, I ordered FreeBSD. In an ironic twist, the CD took so long to get to me that I ended up buying Linux in a local store and installing it first. I still keep both around, running Red Hat Linux a little more than FreeBSD. I appreciate FreeBSD's consistency and way that you're forced to understand the system to use it optimally. The FreeBSD community is a great value-add too, even when we're bickering like teenage siblings. But the device detection and support is good for my esoteric hardware that isn't yet fully supported in FreeBSD. And I appreciate Red Hat's graphical configuration utilities too. They're nice for the times when I want to get something set up right now, without doing three days of research on figuring out how to do it. As a desktop user who occasionally sets up a classroom file server, either one is more than stable enough for my needs. But then again, so is Windows 2000. Yeah, I'm pretty easy that way. :-) --Chip Morton At 05:22 PM 6/11/2001, David Johnson wrote: >There shouldn't be much wondering about this. Linux is more popular than >BSD. Someone new to Unix is naturally going to start with Linux. >Everyone talks about it, you can find it easier on the store shelves, >etc. Then once they learn the basics of Unix, some of them "progress" on >to BSD. If BSD were more popular than Linux, then I suspect that you be >seeing the reverse. > >Back when I started with freenix and PC unices, I had a Walnut Creek >magazine. I saw the adverts for Slackware '96 and FreeBSD and >4.4BSD-Lite. At the time, the BSD's did not sound newbie friendly, >particularly 4.4BSD-Lite, so I stayed away from them and tried >Slackware. Hey, at least I didn't start with Redhat! > >David > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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