FreeBSD vs Linux

[cytomatrix]

Hi,

I think FreeBSD is the easiest decent operating system that i have ever 
used(i have used windows and linux distros too). To install a webserver 
under freebsd u dont have to run here and there, just go to ports and make 
install clean. You dont need a bunch of buttons for that. And freebsd's 
documentation is the best in the world. But u will only understand that if u 
have spend some time on reading freebsd handbook. I installed my webserver 
just using the handbook. For me freebsd is not hard to use. Good luck with 
freebsd and enjoy. :)

Cheers,
Cyto

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bart Silverstrim" <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
To: <mmiranda at americatel.com.sv>
Cc: <questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux


>
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:55 PM, mmiranda at americatel.com.sv wrote:
>
>>
>>> koen de wijs wrote:
>>>> Hello folks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of
>>> mine adviced
>>>> FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I
>>> don't like is
>>>> that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff.
>>
>> Yeah, this is unix my friend, that mean you have to get dirty "AND LEARN" 
>> a
>> lot in the process.
>>
>>> There are a million sites discussing this, it's a flamebait,
>>> and no one
>>> wants to have that start up, so what you are doing is being (possible
>>> innocently, but I wonder) very very impolite.
>>
>> I totally agree, stop whining and begin to read, read, read a lot,
>> Do you want the easy way? go with linux,
>> btw, i think windows xp is the rigth choice to you ;-) , you dont want to
>> read and learn, dont even touch a unix terminal
>
> I'm afraid after playing with both FreeBSD and some different distros of 
> Linux, that "easy way" isn't necessarily Linux either.  If anything it can 
> get to be much more complex if used on the desktop when it comes to 
> installing and updating software unless you only stick to that distro's 
> "way" of installing new software.  And if you set it up to do more complex 
> tasks it still takes every bit as much understanding and altering of files 
> as FreeBSD does! :-)
>
> The only "easy way" to go with installing things on a computer would have 
> to be Windows (in the Intel world), since it is most often just a matter 
> of clickclickclickclick done.  Windows will usually run for several weeks 
> while gathering glut and goo in the registry, in temporary directories, 
> screwing up various things in the background.  It has to be easy to set up 
> because you end up having to reinstall when it "starts acting weird" :-)
>
> Really though; with Windows, it's a matter of "I want a web server...down 
> load "web server"...click click license yeah yeah click... oooh! Web 
> server! (don't know what it has open in the background or what scripts are 
> enabled or disabled or...but who cares...web server!)
>
> With a Unix system it's "I want a web server...<google>....hmm...Apache 
> looks like it should work...<search through ports>....make install....edit 
> config file...what's this do?...oh...<google>....<google>...neat!...edit 
> config...what's this 
> directive?...<google>....okay...edit...save...apachectl start...web server 
> with X, Y, Z enabled, ,listening on port X, logging to Y, with virtual 
> host Z.  WEB SERVER!"
>
>