-----Original Message----- From: Robert Lyons [mailto:rlyons@faithdesign.com] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:22 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] no flame just information
OK, I'm not looking for a flame I just need some information. A friend of mine that is an ISP is swithching from Redhat to another distro. of linux. I of course recomended suse for his next release. He was also looking into using frebsd. Since I have never used frebsd, I would like to get a lot if input on how it compare to suse. Is it better or worse, more or less stable, etc. Hard to configure or worth the configuration?
Well, FreeBSD isn't another distro of Linux if that's what you mean. I downloaded and installed FreeBSD 4.0 last weekend and it is quite different from Linux. The documentation is mediocre, I still haven't found out how to add other OSes to FreeBSD's boot loader so I'm using lilo which works great. Also, the HD slices and disklabel are quite a bit different than Linux or MS partitions. Once you learn the device names and file system in general it seems like it will be fairly easy to understand. There are some tools to set up the basics such as networking but I haven't found any tools that are as comprehensive as, say, YaST. Adding packages and ports is very simple, though. The only thing that I haven't done yet is setup PPPoE which was a piece of cake with Linux, from the FreeBSD handbook it appears that it will be almost as easy but it will require a re-compile. The cool thing about SuSE is that they have most of the latest, greatest stuff compiled as modules in their stock kernel. Greg Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/