The Learning Curve

[Mervin McDougall]

I have to admitt that coming from the Linux world,
namely  Slackware linux, I was plese that the init
system for freebsd and Slackware was very much
similar. It helped make the transition faster and
better. 

But, what really won me over as a newbie was the
information that was provided on the freebsd website.
The handbook was definitely a good read. I found
myself having to go online to read information about
the different linuxes I encountered all over. Because
most of  the linuxes include parts of of their base
system which come from all over. In fact when it came
to setting up my interent connections, there is no one
standard from Slackware, for interent via phoneline,
you can use this software, for PPPoE you use this
other and so on. But the standardisation done with
FreeBSD is a god sent. It helped me get up and started
quickly and prevented me from searching through
numerous different manuals about how to set up xy and
z. I think my learning curve on a freebsd system has
been a lot steeper than on any of the previous linux
systems simply because everything comes from the same
source.


That's just good stuff!!


		
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