[cfgeeks] *BSD?

[Kevin Inscoe]

Fedora and CentOS are delayed releases of Redhat sources. It's
important to note that Fedora is sponsored by Redhat while CentOS is
not affiliated with Redhat in anyway (and is legally distanced from
them as well). And from what I gather much of Redhat (which yes is all
enterprise, commercial and costs even to download [Company pays
support so I have the ISO's]. There is a desktop (KDE/Gnome and they
are old KDE is 3.x last I looked at 5.2) that comes with them all.
These days Redhat is really Fedora (community built) with some Redhat
enterprise (these are big ones though) specifics thrown in (which is
CentOS) however getting fixes is quite delayed if you depend on
CentOS. At work I am trying to convince them to switch from RHEL to
CentOS (well I would really like Gentoo but that will never happen).
However if when we start doing GFS and Cluster I would insist on
Redhat to get the fixes sooner.

If you go on the LEAP list I am sure Bryan Smith can tell you all you
want to know and more but that's what I understand about it.

As far as bsd goes I have used FreeBSD once upon a time at work for
web servers but I have not touched it since the 4.x days. I loaded 7
up on Vbox but never did anything with it. I like the "make world"
aspect of it hence why I like Gentoo. I have OpenBSD which I intend to
some day learn the firewall on it better and will use that here at the
house for my firewall. Maybe later this summer. I need to make a
cluster or dual path-ing of it in case it fails and I am not around to
fix it. The wife and kids would go nuts, much of our livelihood and
education is internet based. If you don't like hacking as you say you
will NOT like *bsd much I would say. Certainly not as an appliance.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM, John Mayson <john at mayson.us> wrote:
> Anyone here running any flavor of BSD?  Still geeking out with
> VirtualBox and thought I'd try my hand at it.  I went to install
> FreeBSD.  It reminds me of installing Linux circa 1998.  I wasn't in
> the mood to figure out partitions and such so I bailed and will go
> back later.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm going to *DO* with any of this, but just hacking a bit.
>
> Oh, I take it RedHat went 100% enterprise, pay for support and Fedora
> is their free project?
>
> John
>
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