Debian vs FreeBSD (was Re: Re: [buug] cockroaches and kernel build)

f.johan.beisser jan at caustic.org
Wed Aug 7 23:32:18 PDT 2002


On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Patrick Soltani (psoltani at ultradns.com):
>
> > FreeBSD is not for the faint of hearts, check out the 4.6 and the
> > upcoming 5.0.
>
> There were some problems with 4.6, so people would be well advised to
> load 4.6.1rc2, instead.  The ISO is on ftp sites, e.g., at
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386

a "few problems", i'd seriously recommend sticking with 4.5 untill 4.6.1
is out.

a new developers snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 is supposedly being released
soon. perhaps has been. this one should be "stable enough to develop on",
which may be of interest to people here.

out of the BSDs, FreeBSD is by far the easiest to install and handle, with
decent documentation and resources to work with. not to mention one of the
easiest installers to use out of the bunch.

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