To freeBSD or not freeBSD

[Trish]

Hello Frederick, Steve et al,

Well, I hope this topic wasn't too hard on too many inboxes. :)  I
appreciate the varied and detailed responses, I certainly got the
answers I was looking for and then some, especially from those whose
jobs are similar to mine.  While I have a bit more research to do to
be absolutely comfortable with what I spend my time on, seems like my
son's advice to freeBSD was solid.  Thanks, all.

Trish

Saturday, May 17, 2003, 8:35:11 AM, you wrote:

FJ>  --- Trish <failte at 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

FJ> These topics are killers! I can feel my inbox getting full already...

FJ> I have tried Mandrake, Debian and Slackware... neither of them stayed on for
FJ> longer than 2 months (for various reasons)... One thing I particularly didnt
FJ> like about Linux is whenever I went to configure/mess around with something
FJ> (which I did/do a lot) I always got these descriptions saying (blah blah) 'this
FJ> is a mix of BSD and systemV, we put some things here and other things here, oh,
FJ> and this is something that we designed ourselves over here etc'. I have found
FJ> FreeBSD to be very organised and easy to understand, which really suprised
FJ> me... I thought being some hardcore UNIX distro meant that only people with an
FJ> equally hardcore understanding of UNIX would be able to use it! :) There are
FJ> many other things which I dont like about Linux and love about FreeBSD... I
FJ> could go on forever about the subject... 
FJ> I know people say FreeBSD is the fastest, stablest, most functional OS out
FJ> there... from what I have experienced so far I am begining to believe them. :)
FJ> ...is there an advocacy mailing list? :)

FJ> Fred

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Best regards,
 Trish                            mailto:failte at sentex.net