Re: which linux distro for a FreeBSD user looking for something new
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/27/05
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:30:25 -0500
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:38:53 -0500, Roy Shimmyo wrote:
> I have a dual 600 MHz PIII with 1G of ram and a decent video card. I ran
> FreeBSD on it for years, and I love that OS. I decided to make the
> switch to linux when I tried FreeBSD 5.x and it was a mess. Granted, at
> the time the 5.x series was unstable, I figured it would at least be
> usable. I installed Fedora Core 1 and have since upgraded to Fedora Core
> 2, and I must say that after using a well thought out and tested
> operating system as FreeBSD, that Fedora seems like an OSS answer to
> Windows. I have a lot of the same problems with Fedora that I do with
> Windows, and I am looking for a distro that a real Unix geek like myself
> can feel at home with. I've heard some good things about Slackware, and
> Gentoo seems to have the ports thing, but something about Gentoo seems
> half assed, and Slackware just seems so archaic. Are there any
> ex-FreeBSD users who are happy with their linux distro?
Would you be more specific about what it is that you don't like in Fedora?
>From a real *nix users point of view all *nixs are pretty much the same. I
spend all of my time inside of Xemacs and run all of my apps from Xemacs
shells. The only exceptions are Firefox, Pan and Evolution which I launch
from buttons on the Gnome panel. I think the panel is convenient and I
wouldn't want to give it up but it's not life changing, it's pretty easy
to type a few characters in a shell to launch an app. I also don't think
having things like a launch panel or Nautilus (which is very pretty even
if it isn't very useful) make the system Windows like. You can still do
everything the *nix way if you want. Those things are there for the people
who like those sorts of things. The things that differentiate the various
flavors of Linux are their installers and their configuration tools. You
can choose to ignore the configuration GUIs if you want, you can always
edit config files by hand. Personally I like Mandrake's control panels and
I like their installer. I also like Fedora's installer, I like their
control panels less than Mandrake's but they are adequate. Once the system
is setup you hardly ever touch the configuration tools anyway. The
important thing is that you can set up a system quickly and you can tweak
something without having to be an expert, I don't see anything wrong with
that.
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