[TriLUG] first post: looking for basic Linux course

[Matt Pusateri]

On Aug 21, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Len Boyle <Len.Boyle at sas.com> wrote:

> Two thoughts. 
> 
> I know a few FreeBSD folks and they have been trying out the  zfs filesystem ported from opensolaris.  Something you might   want to look at.
> 
> I believe that html5 seems to be the hot topic of late. 
> 
> len
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Jack Hill
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:32 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] first post: looking for basic Linux course
> 
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, bak wrote:
> 
>> Yes, this.
>> 
>> I learned how to do Linux stuff the first time around by buying a 
>> system from a property surplus warehouse and installing BSD on it.
> 
> I don't mean to nit-pick, but was curious if you mispoke, or if BSD, by virtue of being something (older, simpler, less popular, a cleaner design,
> etc.) actually tought you something about Linux. I've been meaning to do a BSD install for some time, but keep getting distracted. I guess I need a specific project for it, but all the projects I think of I can just implement on top of my GNU/Linux systems. Maybe I should get into filesystems and look at NetBSD and puffs.
> 
> Also, someone suggested working on a Free flash implementation. Is Flash that interesting of a technology compared to in-browser JavaScript and Java applets?
> 

Most of the FOSS  packages  that run on Linux run on on BSD.  What's different is mostly startup script management and package management.  I'm a huge FreeBSD fan.  It's a lot more stable than the churn that Linux has with each flavor changing something every release without real value.   Oh and ZFS on FreeBSD rocks!