General Unix Learning

[W. D.]

At 14:15 9/7/2004, hide110 wrote:
>Please forgive me if this is not the right place to turn but, I figure you
>all would be able to share your wisdom with me.  
>
>I am a Windows user and I've hated it for the past few years.  The Unix
>experience I have accrued has mainly been working from a shell account;
>nothing really in detail about the actual operating system or installation. 
>I have considered FreeBSD & Linux, but really, for a desktop system do you
>guys think it's viable for a nearly pure unix newbie to tinker around with
>BSD?  Or would it be easier to start with Linux & eventually port over to
>BSD?  
>
>Normally I'd take my own advice (if you want to use BSD, use BSD, if you want
>to use Linux at the end of the day, use that) but I'm just trying to be
>practical with all learning curves taken into consideration.
>
>My deepest apologies if I should not be asking something like this here.  But
>any replies would be terribly appreciated.

Much of what runs on Linux also runs on FreeBSD, either
'natively' or using Linux emulation.

FreeBSD vs. Linux discussions:
http://tinyurl.com/2f8np
http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/techtv_090303.html
http://tinyurl.com/6xhrz
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux8.php
http://www.InternetWeek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800936
http://Search.Yahoo.com/search?p=%22FreeBSD+vs.+Linux%22
http://www.Google.com/search?q=%22FreeBSD+vs.+Linux%22

Here is an installation how-to that I've worked up:
http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/

I'll be working on a how-to for Samba, and possibly KDE in
the near future.

Linux is getting all the hype these days, but FreeBSD is 
better.  ;^)





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