Re: [techtalk] Re: OpenBSD vs. Debian 2.2

2000-11-02 Thread Elaine Poulsen
Bek, See www.defcon1.org and www.freebsdrocks.com for sites that have good examples, HOWTOs for FreeBSD. Bek Oberin wrote: > curious wrote: > > Jumping from Debian to OpenBSD requires a little learning curve since > > devices/default shells and lots of commands behave diffrently and use > > dif

RE: [techtalk] Re: OpenBSD vs. Debian 2.2

2000-11-02 Thread Stacie Turner
I am an OpenBSD fan for one simple, selfish reason. I have an internal modem. I spent months tearing my hair out trying to get Linux (Red Hat) to find the modem, trying way to many things and imploring all my local gurus for help, most of whom said something along the line of "get an external mo

Re: [techtalk] Re: OpenBSD vs. Debian 2.2

2000-11-02 Thread Tricia Bowen
So far, I've used Caldera's OpenLinux, RedHat's Linux 6.2, and FreeBSD 4.0. As far as unix commands go, they're all roughly the same. Installations are different. FreeBSD is better for networking and security. Linux is nicer for development. I've had trouble compiling some java programs on Free