Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-27 Thread Jeff Rollin
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 sit

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Rick Apichairuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 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&#

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-23 Thread Rick Apichairuk
>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://w

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
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. Y

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread bram
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

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-02 Thread Danny Pansters
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.

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Erik Osterholm
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, b

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
--- 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

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
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 > fl

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Gao
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 w

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
--- 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 pai

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
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 se

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Laverenz
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 commercia

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread DAve
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

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread Colin Percival
[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

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread Patrick Bowen
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

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread Pablo Mora
[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 custo

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread Patrick Bowen
[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 pla

Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread mailing-lists
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.co