[ale] RedHat Enterprise vs. FreeBSD

[Christopher Fowler]

PcBSD.  It uses KDE and I'm am familiar with gnome

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:17 -0500, KingBahamut wrote:
> My only gripe about BSD (cvsup is a cool deal , much like apt-get is
> in Ubuntu/Debian) is the installer is somewhat antiquated. If your
> familiar with Redhat , id stay with it. Honestly, Id ask for ubuntu
> conversion but , that might be unrealistic PJ. =) 
> 
> 
> On 8/16/06, Eichler, Paula J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) <pja0 at cdc.gov> wrote:
>         Thanks for the replies, guys.  I will have to do more research
>         into the tools you describe.  I am pretty familiar with how
>         RedHat works, but I have never used a BSD installation.  RHEL
>         seems pretty straightforward to patch, but I was told that
>         FreeBSD was easier to maintain.  I need to know why and sound
>         like I know what I am talking about ;) ...pj
>         
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>         From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
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>         Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:37 PM
>         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>         Subject: Re: [ale] RedHat Enterprise vs. FreeBSD
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>         On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 13:51 -0400, Eichler, Paula J.
>         (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) wrote:
>         > Can anyone point me to any comparison documentation on
>         > RedHat Enterprise and FreeBSD?  Firsthand experience is
>         > relevant, as well.  Specifically, I am interested in the
>         > advantage either one has over the other in installation,
>         > maintenance/patch management and ease of hardening.
>         > Thanks ..pj
>         > 
>         I have no first-hand experience with RHEL, however, I do have
>         experience with FreeBSD and Linux in general, in many forms.
>         The best advantage that I can say for FreeBSD is the easy to
>         use file system snapshots functionality, which eases the back-
>         up process, providing on-line backups for UFS2 file systems in
>         any arrangement, and is even integrated with the "dump"
>         utility.  Linux supports file system snapshots as best as I
>         can tell for the XFS file system, but only if LVM is used.  I
>         have never used a system with LVM on it, nor the XFS file
>         system, so somebody else would be better equipped to tell you
>         more about that.
>         
>         Other than that, FreeBSD is about as easy to install as
>         Slackware or older versions of Red Hat, and after it is set up
>         is not that hard to get up and running.  There are many ways
>         to harden the system, including OPIE (One-time Passwords In
>         Everything), and various IP filtering capabilities are
>         available.  It is a well thought out system, and has excellent
>         reference documentation that is available for the current
>         releases.
>         
>         Not to sound like Linux is bad?it is far from it.  However, I
>         have found that I rather like FreeBSD if I need to set up a
>         server very quickly for someone and it needs to be reliable,
>         secure, and easy for them to administer.  Of course, your
>         mileage may vary.  However, I think that the very easy to set-
>         up and use filesystem snapshots are an invaluable thing to
>         have, and they are the reason that I have chosen FreeBSD over
>         Linux for production servers.
>         
>             ? Mike
>         
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