Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:26:17AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Some time ago I found this following rant on the topic. It is quite > well written and informative. Good reading. > > http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php > nice. thanks A signature.asc Descrip

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Mark wrote: > As a FLOSS person, I always like to know what make *BSD more attractive > than Linuxes. If you get a change to blog or comment here about things > you notice, I'm sure I and the other list folks would be interesting in > your observations. Hopefully keeping flameage too a minimu

RE: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-17 Thread Philippe Lang
Kevin Mark wrote: > As a FLOSS person, I always like to know what make *BSD more > attractive than Linuxes. One thing comes to my mind: documentation. I'm sure there is plenty of documentation and infos on Debian, everywhere, but when you start, I imagine you feel more confortable with BSD docume

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:46:55AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > Just curious: what induced you from freebsd to debian? > > Hi, > > Thanks all for your help. I decided to make the transition from FreeBSD > to Debian for a few reasons: > > 1) Virtualization: For

RE: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-17 Thread Philippe Lang
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Just curious: what induced you from freebsd to debian? Hi, Thanks all for your help. I decided to make the transition from FreeBSD to Debian for a few reasons: 1) Virtualization: For the moment, there is no offical Dom0 XEN port on FreeBSD, and FreeBSD jails are a

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:07:54AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:27:54 +0200 > "Philippe Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2) Under freebsd, ports can be checked against vulnerabilities with a > > simple command: > > > > -- > > Portaudit -Fda > > > > If there is anyt

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread William Pursell
Philippe Lang wrote: 1) First of all, there is a nice feature under FreeBSD: on a shell, command history can be filtered with a few characters, when using the up arrow. For example, if you rember you restarted a deamon before, you can type "/etc/i" and then press the up arrow key. Only past comm

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:43:56AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > > > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, a

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there > is a way of having that on Debian too: > > 1) First of al

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/15/07, Philippe Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hi, I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there is a way of having that on Debian too: (...) 2) Under freebsd, po

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Teunissen
> Hi, > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there > is a way of having that on Debian too: > > < snip > > > > > 3) Under FreeBSD, you get eve

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:27:54 +0200 "Philippe Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there > is a way of having that on Debian to

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there > is a way of having that on Debian too: > >