Francois Thunus wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 FT>> It all comes down to a matter of personnal taste. Coming from
 FT>> slackware, you would have no problem to adapt to any BSD (as with
 FT>> any unix, some assembly is required :-))

 RJT> Personal taste?  Hm,  I'd have thought that there were other things to
 RJT> consider,  with those...

 FT> You are right. Each of those has stronger points and weaker points.
 FT> You may want to review them all and see which one best fits your
 FT> needs.

Review them all?  I don't know if there's enough time for that sort of thing...

That's why I asked.    Just to get something of a flavor for the
differences.

 FT> What I meant was that unless one of them has a feature that you 
 FT> desperately need and the others don't, each is as good as the next
 FT> one.

Ok.

 FT> Just like RedHat is as good as SuSE or Slackware or Debian.

I had thought that there were more differences among the BSDs than that.

 FT> At the club I have run Slackware, RedHat, then SuSE, and now I'm 
 FT> running Debian. It is of course based on differences between the 
 FT> distributions, but the fact that I am running one today doesn't 
 FT> mean the others are bad. In fact, as the club's need evolved, and
 FT> the distribution, so has our choice of distribution. 

 FT> The same if true for the *BSD. They are all neck to neck with 
 FT> features, even though they remain focused on what made them start
 FT> in the first place. I remember reading a good article describing
 FT> the strong points of each of them, but of course I can't find the
 FT> url right now.
 FT> www.unix.smthng ?
 FT> anybody ?

Well,  if you happen to run across it I'd be interested.

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