Best OS for FreeBSD'er

[rshea]

Hi - I'm interested in signing up for a machine which will get used predominantly for webserving using PHP and Python.

My experience of sysadmin has been with FreeBSD. I have zero experience of any other *nix.

Could I have suggestions as to which Unix available on UnixShell would be best please ?

Thanks

Richard.

[matta]

Gentoo with it's "portage" system is the most like FreeBSD by far.

[jbw]

NetBSD I know and freebsd I think run under Xen, any way to use them?

[kiwinet]

its probably better for you just to get a freebsd vps/vds.

[rshea]

I would prefer to but Unixshell don't offer FreeBSD and in fact finding 'virtualised' FreeBSD's is a bit tricky. There are some - just not much choice. I would much prefer to use FreeBSD - wouldn't everyone ? ;)

[nyalowitz]

I would love to see FreeBSD available here at Unixshell.

I don't know my Linux well enough to know which available selection is best, but I can say this is certain: stay away from the CentOS, I'm hating it.

...and I wouldn't trust the RPMs or yum installer at all. It makes me miss my pkgadd

[dne]

[QUOTE=rshea]Could I have suggestions as to which Unix available on UnixShell would be best please ?
[/QUOTE]

I suggest Slackware (minimal) and pkgsrc packages for added BSD flavour.


pkgsrc.org (http://pkgsrc.org/)
Slackware Linux with pkgsrc Packages (http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/slackware/slackware.html)


Regards,
Daniel