Subj : test
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Sun May 25 2003 02:12 pm


Roy wrote to Lawrence at 04:06 22 May:

 RJT> What I have here for FreeBSD is probably kinda dated,  but... 

Current stable version is 4.8.

There is a release v5.0, but it's not been classified as "stable" yet. The v5.1 
release is scheduled for this fall and at that time, you can probably expect 
v5.0 to be launched via the "stable" branch.

 RJT> I'm wondering,  when would I want to go with something like this
 RJT> as opposed to say,  sticking with the Slackware that I'm running
 RJT> on the other box and am already fairly familiar with?  Or maybe
 RJT> when would I want to go with some other flavor of *BSD,  or even
 RJT> some other unix?

Roy, that's really a matter of preference.

My choice for going with the *BSD product is because the BSD source tree has 
been around forever, it's a true Unix, it's derived directly from the original 
AT&T Unix, and it's very easy to install.

With the dozens of Linux distributions now available, one could spend several 
months just "evaluating" them to find the right one -- a project that I do have 
on my agenda for later this summer. However, I had an immediate need to update 
the box providing my DNS services for eforest.net. I looked briefly at all 
three BSD products (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) and didn't find any 
particularly pressing reason to switch, so I went with what I was comfortable 
with -- FreeBSD -- which was installed at v4.3 on the box I just replaced.

Maybe later this summer/fall, I'll have something more useful to say about 
Linux vs BSD. 
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