[wplug-bsd] first BSD

[Chris Romano]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:00:49 -0400, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have had an interest in learn/playing with BSD for a while.  I was
> > wondering if one is more newbie friendly the the others.  I know that
> > each is different in one form or another but being based off of 4.?
> > BSD lite (I think) they should be pretty similar.  I might be
> > completely wrong on that assumption ...
> >
> > Anyone have some suggestions?  I guess I am most interested in FreeBSD
> > and OpenBSD.  I will probably try both at some point, though.  Just
> > looking for a good starting point.
> 
> From the newbie standpoint, FreeBSD is best.  Not only is it the most
> aggresively developed (meaning that there are a lot of user-friendly
> parts being worked on) but it also has the most actively maintained
> documentation:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
> 
> You're right that the BSDs are very similar, and once you've got over
> the initial learning curve on FreeBSD, you should have a fairly easy
> time of it with Net|OpenBSD.
> 
> FreeBSD does have the easiest install process of any of the BSDs by
> a long shot.  You'll probably do well to wait a few weeks until the
> 5.3-STABLE version becomes official, and then start with that.

Is 5.3 the release that will have ACL in it by default? I am not
talking about file ACLs but system ACLs.  Like Pitbull LX
(http://www.argus-systems.com/)?

Chris