OT Advice for server reinstalation

[Mike Jakubik]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Mike Jakubik spake the following on 2/25/2006 4:15 PM:
>   
>> Chris Yuzik wrote:
>>     
>>> Nigel kendrick wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'd skip Fedora and put CentOS top of the list - it's a generic
>>>> recompile of
>>>> Red Hat Advanced Server - I'm running it on 5 servers.
>>>> www.centos.org
>>>>
>>>> NK
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> I second the motion for CentOS. Our new super server that will be
>>> deployed within the week is running CentOS, and I'm extremely impressed.
>>>       
>> Even better, dump Linux altogether, and install an OS that works and is
>> easy to manage, FreeBSD.
>>
>>     
> I have tried a couple times to install FreeBSD to play with it, and keep
> getting stuck. I guess I need to read another hundred online howto's.
>
>   

Where do you get stuck? It takes me 5 min to install FreeBSD, most Linux 
distros take 20 and install crap i don't want/will never use. I don't 
know why you want to read a hundred howto's, there is only one freebsd 
handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/> 
,which should address any questions for people new to it. The ports are 
easy as pie to install.