Need advice/direction picking a distro

clayton rollins crollins666 at hotmail.com
Wed May 12 11:24:54 PDT 2004


On May 12, 2004 "mosborne" <mosborne at cbu.edu> wrote:
>
>Hi all, with the start of the summer here I am going to have
>a little more time on my hands and was wanting to dig into a
>new distro. Up until now I haven't had a lot of time so I
>have just been running man9.1 and I was now thinking about
>making the jump to Debian or even one of the BSD's. What
>I've been looking for on the net and can't seem to find is a
>good review of the pros/cons of a linux distro like Debian
>vs. say freeBSD/openBSD. They all seem to have a great
>informative community and thats what makes the decision
>harder. Please try not too be too biased in your reply. ;]
>thx, m.
>

Though it's a little biased (but, hey, what'd you expect? of
course we like this OS.), I liked this flier:

http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html

Google turned up some interesting items as well:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=linux+bsd+comparison

Regards,
Clayton Rollins

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