From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 8:58:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from isinet.com (mail.isinet.com [199.4.155.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E6714D9E for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aturoff@isinet.com) Received: by pandora.isinet.com id <113920>; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:45:16 -0500 Message-Id: <99Mar2.114516est.113920@pandora.isinet.com> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:57:14 -0500 From: Adam Turoff Reply-To: aturoff@isinet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart References: <4.1.19990302092127.03ff9da0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass wrote: > > Good chart! I'd change the bottom left-hand box to say that > FreeBSD can install ITSELF across the Internet via a PPP > or direct Internet connection after you boot only one > floppy. As far as I know, none of the Linux distributions > is as easy to install this way. (Do continue to plug the > CD-ROMs too, of course.) I don't think that's strictly true. I have a friend who installed RedHat 4.x (maybe 3.x) over FTP a few years ago. These days, most distributions install off of a single floppy but may require a second floppy to do a network install (esp. with bizarre/non PCI ethernet hardware). I installed RH 5.0 this way about a year ago on a laptop that 2.2.5 didn't seem to like. Many linuxen still require 2 floppies to install on alien hardware, such as Alphas, etc. I think all of the major linux distributions can install over-the-wire these days. The interface may not be as intuitive or as highly publicized in the install docs, but it can be done. You could do _much_ worse. FreeBSD: ++ (can be done, single-floppy install) Linux: + (can be done, may require a second floppy) NT: -- (Must have CD + 3-4 floppies, + license number +...) > Also, you might mention that the 24/7 Linux support > companies are EXPENSIVE. Isn't 24x7 support expensive in general? -- Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message