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Good PC-BSD Guide Available

Posted by Hemos on from the read-and-learn dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A very good and worth reading PC-BSD guide for the aspiring newbie is available at from a small site. We definitely need several of these to promote alternate OS. Well done."

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  1. Re:Fails to Impress by PygmySurfer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If someone can come up with a good reason to use BSD vice Linux, let me know.

    Some of the reasons I prefer FreeBSD to Linux:

    - Ports - No Linux package management system can compare with the beauty that is the FreeBSD ports collection
    - Clear separation between base system and add-on software
    - License - I prefer the BSD license to the GPL
    - init scripts - I like the /etc/rc.d system better than the different sets of scripts I've encountered on a Linux system.
    - filesystem layout - I've found the layout of the filesystem to be more logical than most Linux distros. This kind of ties in to my "separation of base system and add-on software" point above.
    - stable, secure.
    - easy updating with cvsup and make *world
    - I like the kernel configuration better. Linux' make config, make menuconfig, make xconfig are a pain. I'd rather just edit a text file, and go.

    Many of these things are just personal preference. Give FreeBSD a serious look sometime, you may like it better than Linux.

    Linux provides all the anti-MS geekiness I can stand at the moment.

    That's not a reason to use anything. "Linux users hate Microsoft. FreeBSD users love UNIX" (Shamelessly stolen from someone's .sig here, I believe).