Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-05 Thread Scott W
DavidB wrote: First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports. My question is this, I would

which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread DavidB
First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports. My question is this, I would like to have a

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, DavidB wrote: First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports. My

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread John Oxley
On Tue 2003-11-04 (00:20), DavidB wrote: First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports.

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, DavidB wrote: First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports. My

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Nicolai P Guba
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 12:29, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, DavidB wrote: My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux and am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same time I started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Gentoo. Period :) I started out with slackware about 7 years ago, ran it for 2 years, then ran freebsd for 5ish, but i wanted something with a bit more main stream/weird hardware/software support so i decided to give a Linux a try. I must say that Gentoo is probably one of the most pleasurable

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi all, Debian gets my vote. Hear, hear. Anybody tried Crux (http://www.crux.nu/) BTW? It has a ports system. Will try soon, methinks... Nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread andi payn
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:20, DavidB wrote: My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux and am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same time I started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out. My personal favorite distro is

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:58:14 -0800 andi payn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supra-Debians --- There are a number of Debian-based distros that will install a complete system ready to go as a workstation, server, etc., but that can be administered from there just like any other Debian