Craig H. Block wrote: > I'd like to start playing with BSD myself. What's the best > distro/version to work with and where do I get it (preferably > online).
Uh oh. Someone said the B word!
There is no "best". If there were, we could have Mark and Thoren
fight it out. Should be a good fight.
"Well, Jim, it looks like Mark's FreeBSD with it's binary
compatibility features are a force to be reckoned with."
"Yes, Bob, but that won't mean a lot if Thoren's attempt
to exploit Mark's box for root access succeeds. Look: he's
opening a port right now! And it's....it's....!"
IAC, you need to decide what you want to do with it. To
oversimplify the matter, if you want a server or a
firewall/router, I'd pick OpenBSD. If you're looking for a
desktop, I can't help but agree with Mark: 5.1's desktop is among
the best I've seen, and that includes Linux desktops. OTOH, if
you'd just like to learn BSD, FreeBSD is probably a more robust
environment.
> BTW, I don't have a problem discussing or hearing about
> anything related to open source on the RLUG group. It's all
> good AFAIC.
I saw a post on a NG yesterday:
"I want to put a free/open Unix on my spare Pentium II. I'm
trying to choose between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
Opinions?"
HTH,
Timmy Hammerquist
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