[wplug-bsd] first BSD

[Bill Moran]

Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/)?

Do you mean this?:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mac.html

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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