Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:07:20 +1000 (EST) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: Linux is better than FreeBSD on X? Message-ID: <199909081307.XAA23631@goblin.apana.org.au>
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This is my machine at school, the school provided these machines to us and I do not really have any extra money to buy something right now. But the issue is not about a conflict because this card works perfectly on NT and Linux (Well we had some difficulties on linux too but it is working fine now) But FreeBSD! it never worked in better resolutions than 800x600 which is very low... I've had plenty of situations where something that worked fine in one operating system gave all sorts of problems in another .... always found the most expedient solution was to replace suspect parts rather than spend excessive time worrying about something that was probably beyond my ability to sort out anyway .... but then my object is usually to get the thing doing what I want in the minimum time & with the minimum of trouble, rather than knowing all the ins & outs This is the case that I cant change my graphics card but I can change my operating system! Linux seems to be more compatible somehow I was thinking that the X is the same so it should work on both Linux and FreeBSD but... I've been there done that with linux, but its extremely unlikely I'll use a linux again ..... I don't have the patience or the inclination to cope with the totally unintelligible documentation, the fanatic attitude of the faithful, and the instability (KDE locked up periodically ..... had to turn power off to unlock it & consequently re-install the whole thing). My present BSD installation is a CLI mode setup running a gateway/router/server and doing a good job (but thats its forte' ) .... I use Win98 / WinNT4 / 2000 / Solaris/ SCO on other machines as each of them has its own particular use & advantage in certain applications. I even tried to download precompiled binaries of 3.3.5 from XFre86.org and source code and compile it on my machine nothing happened. Also here my friend who is using Linux is very happy that FreeBSD is not good with X and Linux is working fine :( Well I've yet to hear one adverse comment on linux f To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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