Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
Hi. On 01/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks The Zend vendor (Zendor?!) is most likely to support Redhat but if you are feeling brave or lucky you could try Gentoo, for which I'll add my vote. Slackware and Arch are nice too but Slackware leaves all the compiling and installing to you (unless you use one of the packages like slapt-get, etc., which aren't the official solution for installing packages) and when I tried it, Arch (a) had a smaller package selection than Gentoo and (b) had less complete documentation. Debian is good too if you have supported hardware (I've found their hw support not to be as good as say Gentoo's or Arch's) but if you prefer freebsd ports to packages then you may wish to avoid it, as although apt-get appears to have a mechanism for installing from source, it looks complicated cf. Gentoo's. My £0.02 Jeff -- Q: What will happen in the Aftermath? A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath. http://latedeveloper.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
- Original Message - From: Rick Apichairuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks I recommend Gentoo or Slackware. I feel that these are most similar to FreeBSD in organization, configuration and third party software management. Personally, I use Gentoo when I can't use FreeBSD. With Gentoo, you can compile everything to be optimized for your specific processor if you want to do so. How exactly do you compile a binary-only product like Zend Platform to be optimiized for your CPU? I realize you mean well but this is commercial software, he needs to call Zend technical support first and ask them which specific linux distro they prefer to use. If he does not do this then at 4pm in the afternoon when there is a problem he may get we didn't test it on that linux distro from Zend tech support. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks I recommend Gentoo or Slackware. I feel that these are most similar to FreeBSD in organization, configuration and third party software management. Personally, I use Gentoo when I can't use FreeBSD. With Gentoo, you can compile everything to be optimized for your specific processor if you want to do so. Best Regards, Rick Apichairuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
Hi I'm not really pro-linux and I really like freebsd but if have to use linux (because I need things not available on bsd). I always use fedora, it's fast to install lot's of info on the net and it is not time consuming (1 hour to install). Danny Pansters schreef: If you have a (Free)BSD mindset and like your rc.conf but don't mind typing pacman instead of pkg_* or portupgrade -P * and you don't mind using something called ABS for src packages, which is like ports, only with a stage install before live-system install, then you may just like ArchLinux. I tried many but besides Debian, Arch is the only one I really enjoyed toying with. Haven't used Arch on serious production system, but it appears that other people do. Gentoo is nice (and keeps you busy/entertained) until it blows up on you. Just my 0.02 as a long time FreeBSD user. The linux I used most was Debian but that was long ago before I landed at BSD. Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
If you have a (Free)BSD mindset and like your rc.conf but don't mind typing pacman instead of pkg_* or portupgrade -P * and you don't mind using something called ABS for src packages, which is like ports, only with a stage install before live-system install, then you may just like ArchLinux. Yes, I agree with Danny. Arch Linux is as close to FreeBSD that you can get with Linux. I don't run any core business services on it, but a friend does run his webservers on it and so far he's happy. Again, my 0.02 on this topic :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600
Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No binary packages? Could have fooled me.
From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds
For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in
an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2 compatible with
meta-information attached to the end of the file. These can be used to
install a working (though not fully optimized) version of the package
quickly and efficiently.
Ah, what do you know :) thanks for making me a little bit less ignorant :)
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Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
If you have a (Free)BSD mindset and like your rc.conf but don't mind typing pacman instead of pkg_* or portupgrade -P * and you don't mind using something called ABS for src packages, which is like ports, only with a stage install before live-system install, then you may just like ArchLinux. I tried many but besides Debian, Arch is the only one I really enjoyed toying with. Haven't used Arch on serious production system, but it appears that other people do. Gentoo is nice (and keeps you busy/entertained) until it blows up on you. Just my 0.02 as a long time FreeBSD user. The linux I used most was Debian but that was long ago before I landed at BSD. Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:46:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need commercial support, CentOS is the way to go: http://www.centos.org CentOS is a free version of Redhat's Enterprise Linux and is available for several platforms, including amd64. Everything that is certified for RHEL will run without problems on CentOS. The current version is 4.4 but a new version of RHEL is expected to be released during the next weeks (which will be followed by a new version of CentOS). If you want an entirely free system with a large software repository and don't care for certifications from software or hardware vendors, I'd strongly recommend Debian Etch (will be the stable release in a short while). Commercial support is available from Hewlett Packard IIRC. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:12 +0100
Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need
commercial support, CentOS is the way to go: http://www.centos.org
CentOS is a free version of Redhat's Enterprise Linux and is available
for several platforms, including amd64. Everything that is certified for
RHEL will run without problems on CentOS. The current version is 4.4 but
a new version of RHEL is expected to be released during the next weeks
(which will be followed by a new version of CentOS).
I'll agree with Uwe here - Centos is very nice and stable. I've given up on
gentoo, ubuntu , and RHEL (any more lock in and they might as well move to
Redmond...).
( mainly using Centos as a host for VMWare server since it wont run on
FBSD :( , and FreeBSD on XEN isn't there yet, i think... maybe i ought to try
Netbsd... )
I haven't touched slackware since 1995 - if it's still so good I will give it
a try again
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Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
--- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Bowen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick Seconded, if I got to run Linux, I run Slackware (and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64, http://www.slamd64.com/. FreeBSD users will appreciate it's simplicity and it's stability. slamd64-11.0 has issue on nVidia driver, same as FreeBSD 6.2-amd64. Besides you need to recompile kernel to enable smp technology. Each time after recompiling/upgrading kernel you need to reinstall the driver download on nVidia.com. The situation is better than FBSD. I can't locate driver for FBSD x86_64 on their website, only x_86 available. The onboard NIC fails to work and X can't work properly However smp technology is already enabled on FBSD. I have slamd64-11.0 and FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 running here. I have no knowledge on CentOS. I'm prepared to try it. According to folks on their forum CentOS supports nVidia chipset without problem. B.R. Stephen Liu Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
Stephen Liu wrote: --- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Bowen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick Seconded, if I got to run Linux, I run Slackware (and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64, http://www.slamd64.com/. FreeBSD users will appreciate it's simplicity and it's stability. slamd64-11.0 has issue on nVidia driver, same as FreeBSD 6.2-amd64. Besides you need to recompile kernel to enable smp technology. Each time after recompiling/upgrading kernel you need to reinstall the driver download on nVidia.com. The situation is better than FBSD. I can't locate driver for FBSD x86_64 on their website, only x_86 available. The onboard NIC fails to work and X can't work properly However smp technology is already enabled on FBSD. I have slamd64-11.0 and FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 running here. I have no knowledge on CentOS. I'm prepared to try it. According to folks on their forum CentOS supports nVidia chipset without problem. B.R. Stephen Liu Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux, you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo Linux is very flexible and has a very good support community. Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:17:10 -0800
Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux,
you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but
also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo Linux is very
flexible and has a very good support community.
risking making this a discussion about linux : I've used gentoo... portage is
OK but is nowhere near as good as the ports collection, IMHO. First, you
need to build everything from scratch, no binary packages. There is an annoying
split of portage sections (dev | production | good | bad | pink ..whatever),
that someone else puts on you, rather than allow you to chose what to use. And
masked ports?!
-USE flags are confusing, to me (global? local? ) Anyway..maybe I haven't got
the patience needed for linuxi rather get on with life :D
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Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
--- Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick Seconded, if I got to run Linux, I run Slackware (and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64, http://www.slamd64.com/. FreeBSD users will appreciate it's simplicity and it's stability. slamd64-11.0 has issue on nVidia driver, same as FreeBSD 6.2-amd64. Besides you need to recompile kernel to enable smp technology. Each time after recompiling/upgrading kernel you need to reinstall the driver download on nVidia.com. The situation is better than FBSD. I can't locate driver for FBSD x86_64 on their website, only x_86 available. The onboard NIC fails to work and X can't work properly However smp technology is already enabled on FBSD. I have slamd64-11.0 and FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 running here. I have no knowledge on CentOS. I'm prepared to try it. According to folks on their forum CentOS supports nVidia chipset without problem. B.R. Stephen Liu Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux, you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo Linux is very flexible and has a very good support community. I have 64 bit Gentoo box here. It also has nVidia driver problem. My 20 Philips LCD display can't display resolution 1024x768. I have to download a driver from nVidia.com. Now it displays correct resolution 1680x1050. I don't know whether I need to reinstall the said driver if after upgrading/recompiling the kernel. Because it is running on a single core AMD Athlon64 PC. I don't need to recompile kernel to enable smp. I'm now searching a rigid OS, either Unix or Linux, to be run as server. For time saving I don't expect building the same myself, HLFS. I need X for running web browser to communicate outside World. Text browser such as elinks etc. won't serve my need. I won't have X started at boot. I only start it at need. That is my purpose to test CentOS. B.R. Stephen Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:55:41AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:17:10 -0800 Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux, you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo Linux is very flexible and has a very good support community. risking making this a discussion about linux : I've used gentoo... portage is OK but is nowhere near as good as the ports collection, IMHO. First, you need to build everything from scratch, no binary packages. There is an annoying split of portage sections (dev | production | good | bad | pink ..whatever), that someone else puts on you, rather than allow you to chose what to use. And masked ports?! -USE flags are confusing, to me (global? local? ) Anyway..maybe I haven't got the patience needed for linuxi rather get on with life :D No binary packages? Could have fooled me. From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2 compatible with meta-information attached to the end of the file. These can be used to install a working (though not fully optimized) version of the package quickly and efficiently. Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux equivalent to freebsd
Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
Patrick Bowen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, my bad. Slackware doesn't support amd64 extensions. However, there is a an unofficial port of Slackware to amd64 at http://slamd64.com/home.html. Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... Have you tried the linux emulation layer? Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... I recommend FreeBSD. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
Patrick Bowen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3 (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_platform) which won't be available for freebsd until the end of the year... So I will need to setup a machine with linux. I don't know much about linux distributions, could someone recommend one to me please. We are looking for a platform that will support amd64 extensions, will act as a console only server and that has a good way to install ports and upgrade. We want something secure and stable. We don't wanna go with Redhat or any commercial distribution. I really like the cvsup/make install/portupgrade way of dealing with software installation and updates and I am looking for something equivalent on a linux distribution. Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick Seconded, if I got to run Linux, I run Slackware (and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64, http://www.slamd64.com/. FreeBSD users will appreciate it's simplicity and it's stability. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
