[ZDNet] Clearing up the confusion

Contributed by Dengue on 2000-09-27 from the bsd-for-dummies dept.

ZDNet is running an article by Chris Coleman of Daemonnews that tries to provide an answer to "What's the difference between [Net|Free|Open]BSD?". Of course, you know the difference.

One item he mentions that I take issue with is his claim that FreeBSD is "...end-user oriented and easier to install than NetBSD or OpenBSD" . I can only imagine that it's an issue of personal familiarity. I find OpenBSD, NetBSD and Slackware Linux to be very easy to install. Debian, RedHat and FreeBSD all seem to be a real PITA (Debian in particular fails to pass the "WTF is this?" frustration test).

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By S. Ligthert () s.ligthert@thyserpent.net on 2000-09-27 14:53 http://thyserpent.net/

IMHO the artikel doesn't go to deep into the internals of the OS and the methods of development.
By Anonymous Coward () on 2000-09-27 23:32

Debian installs may be a little head-scratching if you aren't writing down your partition info as you go, but otherwise I think they're pretty slick - whereas I would have been totally lost installing openbsd 2.7 if I hadn't had the cd's sample script in front of me.

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