Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Polytropon wrote: > While I found that generic > UNIX knowledge was applicable everywhere, "Linux knowledge" > was not, as you could see from file names and locations, > procedures, and configuration statements which could not > be transferred 1:1 between the system

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Polytropon
Readers will surely see more and more people having similar reasons why those who happily use FreeBSD do not want to go back to Linux, or even worse, "Windows". I may include myself here, with the special case that I've never been a "Windows" user, so my mind is clean and healthy and unspoiled of M

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > Later, I tried OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and am now using FreeBSD due to > the same reasons as Chad Perrin stated: Being a power-user, wanting to > control things and (now diverting from Chad's reasons) wanting to use > technol

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote: > [snip] > If anyone would like to quickly comment I'd love to hear why bsd > would be a better choice than ubantu (for what audience it is better). > > Thanks all, > > John > > __

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote: > Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. > > rc.d question > > I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible > unix audience. I need a line in "/etc/inittab" and to have a > start/stop in

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:01:10PM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > > Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. [snip] > > If anyone would like to quickly comment I'd love to hear why bsd would > be a better choice than ubantu (for what audience it is better). FreeBSD is