FreeBSD vs Linux 3472
Hello all, I've been google searching for several hours now and haven't found an answer so I decided it was time to post. This is an SMP 2CPU Xeon machine running RedHat...
I'd suggest that you try installing it on some spare box that you have around.
If you explore the "FreeBSD way" for a little while, you'll probably find that there are things you like and dislike about it in much the same manner that you'd like and dislike things about some other Linux distribution that you're not using now.
Very much like Linux, FreeBSD has available a barrelload of free software. Indeed, it has pretty much the same barrelload of free software.
- There are two popular packaging systems, "pkgadd", which installs them as binaries, and which probably most parallels Slackware's package manager, and "Ports," which installs things from source.
- Rather than there being 85 different distributions with different shapes of the respective filesystems, there is one FreeBSD "core" that consists of the kernel plus a moderately large set of userspace software before you get to Ports-pkgadd.
- BSD folk prefer a license that offers some freedoms that the GPL doesn't offer.
Khaled I am a long time FreeBSD user, and I still use it for a lot of things...
If you find that the FreeBSD 'approach' fits your preferences better than your previously preferred flavour of Linux, then it would probably be wise for you to switch. -- The cigars in Los Angeles that were Duchamp-signed and then smoked.
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