Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell johnandsa...@cox.net wrote: Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. rc.d question I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible unix audience. I need a line in /etc/inittab and to have a

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell johnandsa...@cox.net wrote: [snip] If anyone would like to quickly comment I'd love to hear why bsd would be a better choice than ubantu (for what audience it is better). Thanks all, John

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: Later, I tried OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and am now using FreeBSD due to the same reasons as Chad Perrin stated: Being a power-user, wanting to control things and (now diverting from Chad's reasons) wanting to use technology

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Polytropon
Readers will surely see more and more people having similar reasons why those who happily use FreeBSD do not want to go back to Linux, or even worse, Windows. I may include myself here, with the special case that I've never been a Windows user, so my mind is clean and healthy and unspoiled of

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: While I found that generic UNIX knowledge was applicable everywhere, Linux knowledge was not, as you could see from file names and locations, procedures, and configuration statements which could not be transferred 1:1 between

xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-03 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. rc.d question I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible unix audience. I need a line in /etc/inittab and to have a start/stop in /etc/rc.d, nothing unusual I think. I read many freeBSD rc.d materials and it only convinced

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:01:10PM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. [snip] If anyone would like to quickly comment I'd love to hear why bsd would be a better choice than ubantu (for what audience it is better). FreeBSD is