I'm getting the Bsd Bug

[Slakdisciple]

I have been using Linux for a few years I experimented with just about every major Linux distribution in the E-world My favorite distro is slackware. Ive been using Slackware for a little bit less then a year now the only major distro that I have not tried yet is BSD.

I never thought anything about not having tried BSD until a few days ago, after seeing a banner add advertising Bsds newest release. Every time I devote myself to having just one favorite distro along comes another. I would like to compare BSD with Slackware so I can determine which one is better. I find it hard to believe that there is a Linux distribution that will surpass slackware because I think Slackware is awesome but I cannot say that for sure because I never tried BSD. I don't want to un install Slackware and replace it with Bsd until I know a little bit more about the BSD family and how BSD compares to Slackware the pros cons and so on. Are any hard core BSD- Slackware users in the house that can tell me which BSD is the best Open, Free, etc and how the BSD family compares to Slackware. :confused:

[dkeav]

BSD's are actually derivitives of true UNIX where as linux was intially just gome geeks (linus) interpretation of UNIX, slackware fortunatly uses a very similar rc system that is much like that of BSD's, slackware is probably the only linux distrobution that comes close to being like a BSD operating system at all, so your experience there will transfer over quite well, but you must realise that there are a lot of difference in a true unice than the modern linux distrobutions


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD can explain it better than me


you should have a look at FreeBSD, it is the most seasoned and widely used
BSD based OS and has an excellent documentation handbook, all located on their website at freebsd.org

i have a few "older" howtos that can help you get started, use them as a loose guide at best, there are several useful bsd links there as well

http://dkeav.homeunix.org

[crow2icedearth]

this is a great topic i just recently deciced to use freeBSD on another box i toyed around with a 3 years ago but at that time i was totally lost how it did stuff. today its easier for me because i have been using linux systems for some time . i still do run into problems now and then thou . well anyways i installed freeBSD and im glad i did. freeBSD is very close to unix but of coarse it cant be called unix due to trademark. i also use slackware linux and have since version 7.0 (well when i became a dye heart fan) toyed around with version 4.0 .

you should try freeBSD , openBSD and netBSD . BSD/OS has been dead for a few years. wish it wasnt but it is.

BSD's is what u want to learn if u want to learn UNiX systems. the only thing linux is the kernel. BSD systems are much more then that. openBSD has a very secure system by default and is a server OS choice.

[crow2icedearth]

dkeav's

i would like any old docs or anything u have on freeBSD i want to get up to speed on it (wont take me long ) and start to program in python if u have any good doc on that.. heard python is a cool programming langauge to start with after i learn that ill go to c / then c++

[east]

There is also:
http://www.pcbsd.org/
http://www.desktopbsd.com/

[dkeav]

i would like any old docs or anything u have on freeBSD i want to get up to speed on it (wont take me long ) and start to program in python if u have any good doc on that.. heard python is a cool programming langauge to start with after i learn that ill go to c / then c++


just install python and get to work, its no different programming python in freebsd than in linux