Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 22:35:11 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frederick=20Johnson?= <frebhed@yahoo.com.au> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To freeBSD or not freeBSD Message-ID: <20030517123511.91575.qmail@web10503.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <10288343621.20030517072452@sentex.net>
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--- Trish <failte@sentex.net> wrote: > Hello freebsd-newbies, > > I'm wondering why you picked freeBSD over other distros. I'm > getting ready to build my first Linux box and I admit, I have not fully > researched all the options yet, but am looking at freeBSD on the > recommendation of, well, my son. I take him seriously as he is > already running linux (though not freeBSD as yet - that's his and > my upcoming project), he and his friends are no slouches at this stuff, > typical techie teenagers, and have the time to > do such things. I have less. However, I'm interested in what the > actual user community has to say. > > I get the impression there is significant support available, apps and > drivers are available and configurable > and it's not a nightmare to run. But that's just an impression and > I haven't compared it enough with anything else. > > So if anyone cares to venture a point of view, I'd be interested to > hear it. Thanks! :) > > -- > Trish These topics are killers! I can feel my inbox getting full already... I have tried Mandrake, Debian and Slackware... neither of them stayed on for longer than 2 months (for various reasons)... One thing I particularly didnt like about Linux is whenever I went to configure/mess around with something (which I did/do a lot) I always got these descriptions saying (blah blah) 'this is a mix of BSD and systemV, we put some things here and other things here, oh, and this is something that we designed ourselves over here etc'. I have found FreeBSD to be very organised and easy to understand, which really suprised me... I thought being some hardcore UNIX distro meant that only people with an equally hardcore understanding of UNIX would be able to use it! :) There are many other things which I dont like about Linux and love about FreeBSD... I could go on forever about the subject... I know people say FreeBSD is the fastest, stablest, most functional OS out there... from what I have experienced so far I am begining to believe them. :) ...is there an advocacy mailing list? :) Fred ===== worry is a missuse of imagination http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.
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