Subj : FreeBSD
To   : Rolf Edlund
From : John Donohue
Date : Mon Dec 30 2002 11:26 am

If you're used to linux conventions on where stuff is, freebsd takes some 
effort because you have to relearn where stuff 'lives'. Otherwise it's about 
like installing slackware in time and difficulty. FreeBSD is nicer then linux, 
in my (admittedly limited) experience in that the /etc/rc.conf file does the 
work of multiple config files, and, some of the server apps (dns, etc) are 
already configured to run as a chroot'ed (sandboxed) user rather then as root 
from the default directory. FreeBSD firewalling commands have some stateful 
inspection ability's that linux's ipfwadm and ipchains lacked. I don't know how 
freebsd compares with linux's iptables stuff as I haven't worked with iptables 
yet.
compiling a customized kernel seemed to me to be easier under freebsd as 
there's one (text) control file you edit for that. 
adding programs seems subjectively to me to be about the same wether you're 
using redhat's RPM, slackware's package tool, or freebsd's equivalent; I was 
impressed by freebsd's ability to automatically go out on the net and get any 
files or packages it lacks when you tell it to install something. (the editor I 
was installing had some other package it depended on that wasn't on the system 
or the cd. it went to a freebsd mirror and got it).

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