[PLUG] Anyone care to field a FreeBSD question?

[Preston Crawford]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Geoff Burling wrote:

> So the man wants some opinions, eh?
>
> Now does this mean you shouldn't learn FreeBSD (or one of the other flavors)?
> Many of the jobs that advertise for Linux skills, also are looking for
> skills in one or more operating systems, & FreeBSD does get mentioned.
> I'd say that if you like FreeBSD better than Linux, then learn it, while
> keeping a weather eye on how it varies from Linux. And all the while
> laugh whenever RMS's peevish argument that ``it's properly GNU/Linux"
> comes around again.

That's the way I'm leaning. It just feels good to muck around with config
feels and have them be a little more sensible, a little less complex. It's
a good feeling to have very little (relative to SuSE 8) software installed
and thus just pick and choose what I want from the start. I know, I can do
this with Linux as well, but even the best installer makes this a long
process and in the process of installing stuff you need stuff you don't
want often gets included.

I'm having a problem with X not refreshing correctly under FreeBSD, but
I'm sure I'll be able to work that out. Either way, I like how much closer
I feel to the OS and how much cleaner it is.

I'd also be interested in any technical pros/cons to FreeBSD.

Preston