Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-30 Thread Brad Alexander
Solaris is not open source, it was created by Sun Microsystems, and it is now owned by Oracle...And all the implied baggage that entails. Oracle is not terribly friendly to open source or free software, hence their stance on OpenOffice.org, and mysql. They allowed OOO to languish to the point of

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 08:01 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: FreeBSD has, arguably, a better package system in the ports tree. Ports is/can be configured to do source-based installs of applications. Personally, I would either stick with Linux or try FreeBSD. For Linux, the distro Arch Linux

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 29.08.2013 19:09, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 19:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: I wouldn't install Debian's FreeBSD, test the real FreeBSD first. PPS: The reason for this is, that there's a FreeBSD community and I guess there is not a huge Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd i know some command change and stuff. but architecture wise. like unix is propitiatory, and freebst is not not blah blah. but why one should choose Debian or freebsd over others? i am a big fan of debian and i have been

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Lars Noodén
On 29.08.2013 16:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd [snip] Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that you can always add GNU utilities to Solaris and FreeBSD so that the differences from a user

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that you can always add GNU utilities to Solaris and FreeBSD so that the differences from a user perspective can be quite small. thanks for your response, but i am asking in server perspective. not GUI. in my opinion

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Lars Noodén
On 29.08.2013 17:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that you can always add GNU utilities to Solaris and FreeBSD so that the differences from a user perspective can be quite small. thanks for your response, but i am asking in

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 08/29/2013 04:15 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd i know some command change and stuff. but architecture wise. like unix is propitiatory, and freebst is not not blah blah. but why one should choose Debian or freebsd

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/29/13, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd I might consider Illumos/community-solaris, for using ZFS (eg for a SAN) as backing for some other servers or desktops. btrfs and xfs are catching up though still

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 16:30 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 29.08.2013 16:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd [snip] Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that you can always add GNU

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 17:26 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 29.08.2013 17:20, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that you can always add GNU utilities to Solaris and FreeBSD so that the differences from a user perspective can be

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 19:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: I wouldn't install Debian's FreeBSD, test the real FreeBSD first. PPS: The reason for this is, that there's a FreeBSD community and I guess there is not a huge Debian GNU/kFreeBSD community, but I might be mistaken.

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 8/29/13, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd I might consider Illumos/community-solaris, for using ZFS (eg for a SAN) as backing for some other servers or desktops. btrfs and xfs are

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:15:32PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: what are the major differences btw the three OS. Debian, Solaris, Freebsd i know some command change and stuff. but architecture wise. like unix is propitiatory, and freebst is not not blah blah. but why one should choose