Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:02:13 -0500 From: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <3AE5E9D4.30C0C090@journalstar.com> References: <BHEOJOMCFODELNKHPGJECEENCEAA.bvagnoni@speakeasy.net>
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"SPEAKEASY " wrote: > > Dear All; > > Thanks for everything, I think I'm going to wait a bit before I try FreeBSD, > though I may not. Unfortunately, a friend just gave me a copy of Suse 7.1 > Professional with the 2.4 kernel, and KDE 2.1 (kicks arse, very impressive) > and it's a very very tight OS, makes me feel like Linux is about to go prime > time when I see this kind of user friendliness in LINUX based OS. > > I personally never understood Redhat's appeal, Suse has always been clearly > the better OS as far as what you get for your money. Though Redhat is more > available for support, and they are American based if that's important to > you. For me it's always been when comparing Redhat and Suse I always go back > to the Word Perfect and MS Word comparison. How a command line based word > processor like Word Perfect (where you had to have 3 hands and get your feet > involved in it's weird syntax of commands e.g. control alt shift 9 k 4 just > to highlight text) could become dominant over MS Word's drag and drop > graphical interface is beyond me. We emacs users are proud of the jazz chords we can form on our keyboards. :-) > > Word Perfect had a inferior product but a very effective marketing campaign, > and if it wasn't for MS monopoly on the OS world they still be number one > and we would still be doing cryptic commands from the keyboard. This is how > I feel about the Redhat Suse comparison, Redhat has an inferior product but > a marketing campaign where Suse has no marketing campaign and a better > product. Lets face it no one outside of the Linux world has heard of Suse, > yet go out and try there new 7.1 compare it to Redhat interface and it just > pails in comparison. > > I don't want to turn this into a big debate and or a flame war, I'm just > telling you all how I feel and why I've decided after you have all given me > you precious time and effort which I'm extremely grateful for why I'm not > trying FreeBSd at this time. > > Again thanks for everything your input was most welcome and lets not turn > this into a big debate. > > Thanks > > Brian > > pS I was able to play SOF with a Voodoo 5 card, 633 Celeron, smoothly and > with all the graphic control sliders set to maximum under Suse 7.1, but not > under Redhat 7.0, in fact no setting enables me to play the game it was > totally unplayable with Redhat even with the latest Mesa3d. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Hesford [mailto:ajh3@chmod.ath.cx] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:24 PM > To: Kent Stewart > Cc: Andrew Hesford; SPEAKEASY <bvagnoni>; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or > Suse LINUX > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Andrew Hesford wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:45:33PM -0400, SPEAKEASY <bvagnoni> wrote: > > > > Dear Everyone; > > > > > > > > What about compatiability with the Linux world will I be able to run > stuff > > > > compiled for Linux on freebsd without to much trouble? > > > > > > > > What about hardware compatibility just from reading the package it > seems > > > > that freebsd seems to support more hardware, is this true? > > > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely > > > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > I've never had trouble with Linux programs under FreeBSD. You might not > > > get the newest games running perfectly, but hey, this isn't an operating > > > system for playing sophisticated games. In fact, that's what windows is > > > good for: games. Linux is only half-assed for games. > > > > I have a program that I am interested in called Wordtrans. It translates > > words between language pairs. The maintainers produce rpm's and deb's. > When > > it goes to install, it can't find some library's. I can use locate and > they > > are there. I have the source and it will build but with a lot of manual > > work. It is setup to build Qt/KDE modules. There are problems building the > > KDE-2 modules but I am currently using the Qt-2 module. > > > > How did you deal with the dependancies when you tried to use Linux > programs? > > Cleaning up the makefiles will take time that using the rpm's would avoid. > > That is only true if I can install them. > > > > The default languages are spanish<>english and german<>english but they > > really aren't limited to these two pairs. You can turn on "watch > clipboard" > > and it will translate what you select with the mouse. > > > > Kent > > Truth be told, I've only installed linux programs from the ports tree; > all dependencies are already satisfied. > > You can get rpm running, I believe I have it installed (it was required > for linux realplayer). Then, provided you have all the mandatory > packages, you should be able to install them without trouble. > > The only thing you want to check is that linux packages are installed in > /usr/compat/linux/usr rather than /usr... you wouldn't want linux stuff > overwriting native FreeBSD stuff. > > I don't know about funning dpkg... I don't necessarily see any problem > with it, though. > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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