just bought the freebsd power pak!

[bryan 4 real]

I was in Best Buy and saw this...FreeBSD 4.0, FreeBSD Toolkit, and The Complete FreeSD book, allfor $49.95. I thought it was a good deal. So i picked it up. But, i havent opened it yet. I was wondering, how different is freebsd than linux? I'm not a newbie to linux, well i sorta am, but ive been following it for over a year, and have used it off and on since then, but never for more than a few weeks at a time. I just got my hands on a box JUST for a *nix OS, and i had Suse 7.0, but i'm ready to move on.

Thats why i choose BSD. This came witha book, so i thought i'd give a shot. if anyone has anything to throw in about why maybe bsd may not be a good idea, please speak now before i void my return :D

[Tyr-7BE]

I've been just chomping at the proverbial bit to try FreeBSD. Supposedly, it's the most sophisticated and widely-used Unix. Absolutely wonderful for serving, but performs like a champ on a workstation too. As for how different it is, I would say different enough, but not the change from Win to Linux. Linux is Unix-based, so I assume this might be similar to a Red-Hat/Debian comparison or a Mandrake/Slackware. Either way, you have the book so you should be fine. I'll be a learning experience. And do I ever wish I could find a package like that!!! That's a damn fine price for a professional version + a book.

[bryan 4 real]

Originally posted by Tyr-7BE:
I've been just chomping at the proverbial bit to try FreeBSD. Supposedly, it's the most sophisticated and widely-used Unix. Absolutely wonderful for serving, but performs like a champ on a workstation too. As for how different it is, I would say different enough, but not the change from Win to Linux. Linux is Unix-based, so I assume this might be similar to a Red-Hat/Debian comparison or a Mandrake/Slackware. Either way, you have the book so you should be fine. I'll be a learning experience. And do I ever wish I could find a package like that!!! That's a damn fine price for a professional version + a book.

True, it is a learning experience, and i do have a book, so it may not be as hard as it was to come from windows to linux. I'm just worried about myhardware not working [i heard freebsd doesnt have the hardware support some linux distros have]. I also really wanted to try out storm linux "hail", but unforunatly my expenses cant handle 2 distro purchases, and im on 56k so download times are in the 30 hour range. ugh.