Is it difficult to move from Linux?
Robby Balona
Robby at grab.co.za
Tue Oct 23 05:38:20 PDT 2007
Switch .. switch now and you will love it.
i just spent 3 days trying to get unixODBC working on linux... . I got
it to work in about 10 min on Freebsd. Freebsd rules... its a slight bit
different but it rules.
You will never go back once you port something.....
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:07 +0000, Mayank Jain wrote:
> Hi
> Using freeBSD is more fun. Installing packages and all that is very easy. The
> things you can do in LINUX you can surely do with FreeBSD. Collection of
> large number of ports and the flexibility to modify anything the way you want
> make it cool. Really after installing FreeBSD I had never swithched back to
> LINUX.
> Hope you will also enjoy working on it.
>
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 03:53, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> > Donovan,
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:33 +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of
> > > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any
> > > ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to
> > > make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular which has
> > > been written which would be useful to read?
> >
> > Just my story.. I moved to FreeBSD from Linux five years ago. Shell is
> > only thing I felt difficult. But now I am using tcsh instead of bash.
> > Aside from that, everything is OK ;;
> >
> > Sincerely,
>
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