On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 06:15:42PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's > > (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you > > choose Slack? > > It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :)
Where does Yggdrasil come from? Still around? Such a weird name. > Not quite. I believe it has some metadata. I could just be attributing the > OpenBSD packaging to Slackware, though... haven't used Slack in a long time. What about the compatibility between them *BSDs? I mean in terms of packaging systems. > FreeBSD tries very hard to be blindingly fast on Intel hardware. It succeeds > in almost every respect. Its disk I/O is absolutely incredible. I use it > on every webserver I set up. As of late, they're also taking security to be > a big concern. Is it easy to maintain / keep FreeBSD up-to-date; perhaps as easy as Debian Linux? You told me about OpenBSD being fairly simple in this respect. > OpenBSD is without a doubt the most securable/secure-by-default UNIX (and > arguably operating system) available. I use it for almost every other > machine I set up (I don't for the machines that have a user sit at them, > though, for that, I use Debian). I love that it emails me with diffs on all > files in /etc every night... that its default firewall is stateful (yeah, no > ip_masq_icq module!) It affords the control you had with Slackware, but > gives you a ports tree (the three mentioned BSDs have a ports tree) which > allows you to install packages with almost as much ease as apt. What's the *easiest* way to obtain / install OpenBSD? I could not find any ISOs for it, as opposed to FreeBSD. What's your experience with this? (I have access to a cable modem *somewhere else*) Perhaps you have some tips. > > and AIX. > I'm sorry. :) :) What (bad) experiences have you made with it? I hardly used it so far. Finally, what would you suggest an obvious newbie like me to try from those *BSDs? Thanks a lot Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 aka potato
