[svlug] PC-BSD

[Ian Kluft]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:17:12AM +1100, Domingo Llavero wrote:
> I am curious to see if anyone has tested PC-BSD, and what they thought of the 
> distro?
> 
> I am curious to know if commands between BSD and Linux are very similar, for 
> example, in order to install a sh installer normally in Linux I would do as 
> follows:-
> 
> Open Terminal
> Log in a su
> Enter password
> Type ls to ensure file is located in folder
> Then type sh nameoffile.sh.bin
> 
> Or is there a different process to run sh installers?

Those commands should be in common across just about any type of Unix
system, not just Linux or *BSD.

The place where various Unix flavors and Linux distributions differ the
most is in their administrative interfaces.  Everyone usually starts
those from scratch and does them differently.  User experiences tend to
be the most similar.  Programming interfaces have differences but many
carefully-written programs can be portable to a vast number of Unix
systems.

Linux and BSD tend to be very similar in the user and programming
interfaces partly because they use mostly the same Open Source software
above the kernel layer, coming from GNU, BSD, X.org, and many other
packages.