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Submitted by Al-Basha on Thu, 18/11/2004 - 21:23.
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Salam everyone,

Check out: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html

This is a great article on the many differences (and similarities) between FreeBSD and Linux. FreeBSD 5.3 (stable) just came out a few days ago, I haven't had a chance to try it but I highly recommend it.

Also just in case you're wondering, FreeBSD has a linux emu so you can run a lot of Linux based apps, although there are limitations (namely linux binaries with kernel hooks).

Youssuf

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Debian GNU/NetBSD
Submitted by mina_linux_Tux on Fri, 19/11/2004 - 01:55.

Porting Debian to the NetBSD kernel : http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/why

| Mina Ramses F. | email: minaramses@linuxmail.org | email: mina.ramses@gmail.com | email: minaramses@ieee.org | Computer society IEEE Org.

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Gentoo Free/OpenBSD
Submitted by Al-Basha on Fri, 19/11/2004 - 03:27.

Check out: http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bsd.html

Porting Gentoo to Free/OpenBSD.

One thing I *wish* they would port over to Linux is the bloody amazing PF (packet filter). Anyone here who has ever used PF will know that it is superior to Netfilters firewall/NAT package. I don't mean to cause any fights but I'm talking about serving a network of 20 boxes on a 486 DX/2 66mhz, 32MB RAM with sshd,httpd and ftpd running for those 20 boxes all with low memory/cpu footprint.

Later,

Youssuf

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FreeBSD LiveCD
Submitted by Al-Basha on Sat, 20/11/2004 - 03:27.

For those interested in a FreeBSD liveCD:

http://www.freesbie.org/

Scripts for generating your own FreeBSD liveCD http://livecd.sourceforge.net/

Youssuf

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