PCBSD free BSD question
hi guys , in an attempt to venture out there onto a non-linux environment, i would love to try out one of the other BSD's. however i have no clue why there is free, desktop and open bsd/s and additionally someone is ranting all good about solaris. Anyone know how different my experience will be moving from debian/ubuntu to freebsd / solaris? note: i still need my desktop to be up to task and not have to start looking for graphics adapters... etc etc -- Posted on 100% recycled electrons
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:41 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
hi guys , in an attempt to venture out there onto a non-linux environment, i would love to try out one of the other BSD's. however i have no clue why there is free, desktop and open bsd/s and additionally someone is ranting all good about solaris. Anyone know how different my experience will be moving from debian/ubuntu to freebsd / solaris?
note: i still need my desktop to be up to task and not have to start looking for graphics adapters... etc etc
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lol! Brianiac, I think @Wash and some others are the FreeBSD champion. The last time I tried Open Solaris was eons ago and it required 1GB RAM to run These days ask me about MS since I got used to using their visual studio ide. Na game bado...... :-)
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:41 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
hi guys , in an attempt to venture out there onto a non-linux environment, i would love to try out one of the other BSD's. however i have no clue why there is free, desktop and open bsd/s and additionally someone is ranting all good about solaris. Anyone know how different my experience will be moving from debian/ubuntu to freebsd / solaris?
@Brainiac, What exactly would you like to do? I have used FreeBSD for a long time, same as PCBSD. Forget DesktopBSD as they are lagging so much behind in the *BSD code! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
"i still need my desktop to be up to task and not have to start looking for graphics adapters... etc etc "
*BSD systems were not made to be a walk in the park, that's why they're very stable, if setup correctly. I'd recommend running BSD-based Live CDs to see what tickles your fancy: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_live_CDs) * Anonym.OS – an OpenBSD-based disk for secure anonymous web browsing * BSDanywhere - an OpenBSD-based live CD featuring Enlightenment * DesktopBSD – as of 1.6RC1[1] FreeBSD and FreeSBIE based * DragonFly BSD * FreeBSD – has supported use of a "fixit" CD for diagnostics since 1996 * FreeNAS – m0n0wall-based * FreeSBIE – FreeBSD-based * Frenzy – FreeBSD-based portable system administrator toolkit * Ging – Debian GNU/kFreeBSD-based * m0n0wall – FreeBSD-based * pfSense – m0n0wall-based * PC-BSD – FreeBSD-based - PC-BSD is a complete desktop operating system * Jibbed – NetBSD-based On 8/13/10, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:41 PM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
hi guys , in an attempt to venture out there onto a non-linux environment, i would love to try out one of the other BSD's. however i have no clue why there is free, desktop and open bsd/s and additionally someone is ranting all good about solaris. Anyone know how different my experience will be moving from debian/ubuntu to freebsd / solaris?
@Brainiac,
What exactly would you like to do? I have used FreeBSD for a long time, same as PCBSD. Forget DesktopBSD as they are lagging so much behind in the *BSD code!
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
I am also looking at setting up a firewall/bandwidth limiter/web server/database server on freebsd @odhiambo...what would you recommend for the firewall/bandwidth limiter? ipfw, pf, ipf? others?
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, James Mutuku <listmutuku@gmail.com> wrote:
I am also looking at setting up a firewall/bandwidth limiter/web server/database server on freebsd
@odhiambo...what would you recommend for the firewall/bandwidth limiter? ipfw, pf, ipf? others?
Do you intend to run all these on a single computer or do you intend to separate them? For firewall/bandwidth limiter, you should use PF, and you can easily use pfSense <http://www.pfsense.org/> for that. With a good machine and some creativity, you can nudge the machine to also run your Web/DB services if it has the right specs, otherwise if I were you, I'd NOT run any other services on the firewall machine. IPF doesn't have much on bandwidth limiting on its own, so going that way is useless, imho. IPFW and PF are best candidates. Now depending on how comfortable you are with the rules language structure, you choose between ipfw and PF. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
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