Richard Lawrence wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm wondering if anyone has relatively recent experience using both > Debian (or some derivative) and FreeBSD, and if they might like to > give me some thoughts on the relative merits of each. I'm not looking > to start a holy war here -- just looking for an informed opinion. I > have used Debian and derivatives since I came to the free software > world, but I have never used any of the BSDs Richard, aside from the typical small differences in directory structure conventions the biggest change with FreeBSD is that you use the ports facility to manage packages instead of apt. As a general rule ports are built from source when you install them so you don't end up in dependency hell.
FreeBSD has a long history of being one of the most secure-out-of-the-box UNIX/Linux systems available and for that reason alone I believe that it is worth gaining some experience with it. Dan
