[wplug-bsd] first BSD

Chris Romano romano.chris at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 11:54:08 EDT 2004


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:22:50 -0400, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 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
> 

Yep, that's exactly what I was looking for.  Is that for 5.3 or does
it currently support that?  If so, have you had any experience with
it?

Thanks,

Chris


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