On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:19, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Not that bad... >> >> What a ringing endorsement! Heh. > > You left out "... if you're coming from BSD". I took tat as more of > a comment that a Windows-only guy who can't live without a mouse would > be lost. That would be my take as well. CentOS ain't BSD, but it's > got far more in common than it has apart. Moving from one to the > other should be pretty easy.
True enough - it just struck me as funny. > The biggest difference (for purposes of this conversation) would be > the firewall stuff. Linux has its own thing (called "iptables" and > "netfilter"), while the BSDs have pf/ipfw/ipfilter. Unfortunately, > iptables uses very different syntax vs *pf*. I haven't used the BSD > firewall stuff much, but my impression was that it was superior to > Linux. I think Linux has finally caught up in terms of functionality, > but the syntax is still cleaner with BSD. Still, Linux can do the job > well for most things, so it's usually not a deal-breaker. I like pf, dammit. It's the real reason I don't want to leave BSD. Well, almost true. I had tried several Linux distros before 2000 and was dissatisfied by all of them, then was hired by a now-defunct company that was basing their product on FreeBSD, and never looked back. Heck, I even wiped SLED from the T61 I'm using now. > You may want to check out Gentoo, which I'm told is basically a > Linux built like a BSD. They use "ports" and everything. Hardware > support for one distro often means hardware support for another is > trivial. (It depends on whether they used a portable kernel interface > or not.) So the fact that Sangoma works with Fedora may well mean it > can be made to work with Gentoo with minimal effort. > > -- Ben I'll check that out. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
