Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 16:30 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 29.08.2013 16:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > what are the major differences btw the three OS.
> > Debian, Solaris, Freebsd
> [snip]
>
> Well the most obvious difference is package management. Aside from that
> you can always add GNU utilities to Solaris and FreeBSD so that the
> differences from a user perspective can be quite small.
Yesno :) I've got a FreeBSD install and the kernel is different, e.g. no
ALSA + userspace compared to Linux is outdated. IOW you can not simply
compile something from Linuxworld for FreeBSD installs. While for
FreeBSD there are binary packages available too, the common way is to
use the ports and compile everything yourself, at least I did it and it
takes days to compile everything :). I do not have the time to maintain
FreeBSD, even understanding how to update is beyond my scope, I never
booted FreeBSD within the last month, but I'm unable to delete the
install, since FreeBSD has got a nice "philosophy" and I'm still
subscribed to FreeBSD lists and read.
I like FreeBSD, what I hate is the filesystem. You need a primary
partition to install it and I never managed to access the filesystem
from Linux.
Catchwords for the file system are "partition" and "slices."
Even a multiboot isn't without issues. Use Linux GRUB2 and then ...
menuentry "FreeBSD"{
set root=(hd0,msdos1)
chainloader +1
}
... chainload it.
FreeBSD has a good documentation.
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