FreeBSD
 

Does anyone here use FreeBSD ? I would like to hear a little feedback from some users.
Thank you!!

My friend uses it and likes it a lot. He says it's a lot cleaner than most linux distributions. He also likes the feature (if you have a fast connection it's good) where you can make it automatically download and install the programs that you choose.

I would be interested to know what fast connection he has? I have an alcatel usb pppoa speedtouch and its been the devil to work with... i did download the 4.2 stable version, but i set the ftp up and went to work..got home and 4 gigs was downloaded!! lol turns out the "packages" folder was there as well as the source..lol lol so know i have every single program for bsd tared on my drive.. lol lol. :rolleyes:
The directions for the modem are very complex, but i am learning along the way..i am soooo close to being an expert at kernel comiling! lol
thanks for answering, and any advice would be welcome.

He had dsl, but he doesn't anymore. Anyway, like I said, my friend highly recommends it. I was talking to him and I said I was thinking about installing slackware so I could learn a lot more about how linux works while i configured it, and he said I should really try freebsd. That's about as far as MY expertise goes :)

ive been trying all night to get freebsd to install... i think i missed some files.. or something got corrupted. :-( ill break down and buy. so far, i have tried several distros..i could on and on about each one.. but its just a matter of likes and dislikes.. try a few and see what you like. as far as getting to know how a kernel works, what better place than unix (*BSD)
I got NetBSD to work on an atari 600 xl home computer. lol

well, i JUST installed freeBSD in the last 2 days and not being a linux/unix person it took severl attempts to do it. Had major problem setting up X so gave up then tried xf86config AFTER install and then 'startx' but that failed miserably.. :-(

oh well... i AM in a learning mode so i've not given up hope yet but so far freeBSD isn't near as appealing as the free Mandrake 8.0 offering.

(i lived in houston for many years)
its a pain to start and lord knows i have tried :smash:

i liked red hat.. i have learned a lot about kernels.. but i couldnt compile a kernel on mandrake.. i must have installed it wrong. next i will try out suse. i ordered the cds from freebsd mall, im excited about it, and to learn about systems management. it will be nice to learn from the ground up, maby then i can stop with the stupid newbie questions and stump these gurus with somthing really interesting :D

rog... yu will like suse!
 

i started out with mandrake back last october...i had bought my very first computer only a couple of months before. true, i had some fun with win98 that came with it but i knew there was something more...thats when i discovered LINUX! A true hacker's OS...

At any rate, last january i decided to give suse a try (it was the only distro at a compusa in morrow, ga.). It was a lot harder than mandrake but i found out once a person understands what the basics are (rog, i know you are that and a lot more;-) i wont insult you...) then even the linux expert will find out how very configurable a suse install will be...

Suse uses YAST (Yet Another Setup Tool --what else??hehe) to configure almost everything... kernal compiling is simple as well... If youre into X then SuSE has a real garphical X configurator called SAX (makes xconfigurator, drakx, lizard, xf86setup, etc look like the windows3.1 setup screen :-)) i have tried it on a variety of new and semi-legacy hardware, vid card, and monitor setups. They all have seemed to work...

So, i know i sound like a suse salesman but i have tried so far...mandrake, redhat, caldera, debian, and slack...suse in my opinion is pretty damn good...the server not as good as slack but heads above the others as a workstation!

Good to know that... i suspected as much based on what i've read and heard from others... and suse will definately be my next install.. (i built a system just for testing and learning new os's) i don't want to run the freebe 'run from a cd' version so i'll have to wait till i have a little more time and moola to invest in this project (ie: self teaching linux/unix) if you know of any .iso files with suse that can be downloaded, I'll try them out and as usual (if i like it) i'll buy it... (freeware/shareware is the only way to go)

so... again thanks for the input... good luck and keep in touch...


mike..

Re: rog... yu will like suse!
 

naw...you dont sound like a salesman..lol :-)