Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:10:05 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Message-ID: <19980812121005.A29910@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811194634.16755A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 07:52:28PM -0600 References: <199808120016.UAA14804@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811194634.16755A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 at 19:52 SAT, Brett Taylor wrote: > > Of course we'll say FreeBSD! :-) The only experience I have w/ Redhat > wasn't a particularly good one, but much of that can be blamed on the sys > admin. RH was installed here as a dept server. I believe (and was told > by our WinDoZe person) that he did a basic standard install. That > standard install had a HUGE number of things running that didn't need to > be, ie: > > innd (a news server - we weren't a news server!) > httpd (we had no web pages on this machine!) > gopherd (a gopher server - does anyone use gopher anymore?) > bootpd (no machines were booting off this machine) Your average Redhat RPM package installs not only the binaries, docs, etc., but also all the necessary startup files in Redhat's SysV-like /etc/rc.d tree. IOW, should the newbie admin choose to install "everything" during system installation, he will also be _running_ everything. Anyway, I'm wandering off topic here... -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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