From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 22:55:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D335152A1 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 22:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from psych (tntwc01-3-249.idx.com.au [203.166.3.249]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA06364; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:54:25 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991209175541.006999b0@idx.com.au> X-Sender: dannyh@idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:55:46 +1100 To: "Richard E. Hawkins" , wonko@entropy.tmok.com From: Danny Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD better than Linux? Cc: cweimann@wallnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 15:18 8/12/99 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I justed went and purchased Freebsd 3.3 and then taken down Linux RH6. Because RH6 requires half of my time fixing the problems. People, please don't ever use RH6. > > >wonko wobbled, > > >> well, danny's list is a good start. but let's look at what you said chris. >> how would you have done that in FreeBSD? easily. not a lot of problems, but >> let's look at my favorite difference. let's say you want to update your Linux >> system to a newer version of the OS (kernel+userland). under Linux such an >> undertaking is quite a bother due to the fact that it is almost 100% >> interactive, and i have never been able to make in non-interactive. (remember >> i haven't touched Linux is several years now, but i don't really think it has >> changed in this respect anyway) > >I can't speak for the others, but for debian it's trivial. There were >some glitches going to glibc for people that wouldn't read the 10 lines >of directiosn, but even that they've worked around. However, you deal >entirely with prepackaged binaries. Debian's dependencies also work >without a hitch. > >On the other hand, debian belongs to the High Church of Emacs, with the >ever-popular hymn "GPL uber alles" . . . There's a lot of reasonable >folks there, but the politics get to be a bit much. > >> with Linux you have to do 'make config' and then load your configuration into >> the config program so it can build a real config file for building the kernel. > >> it's just plain messy. > >ehh. menuconfig/xconfig are really no messier then bsd. It may be >ugly, but it's hidden. > >> let's face it, NOBODY has great documentation. i've run across some extremely >> out of date man pages in both NetBSD and FreeBSD distros. but the BSD people >> seem to be making a harder effort to update their man pages. (the BSD 4.4 >> man pages you can occasioanlly find not-withstanding, hee hee) > >And there's so much they get from the gnu folks that the hostility to >man pages gets to be a problem. Whoever developed info should be >sentenced to using microsoft products. > > >> > >If I have a problem with FreeBSD the answer is either in the handbook >> > >or in the mailing list archives. I have never needed to look at source >> > >except out of curiosity. > >Once you figure out what you're looking for, yes. If you don't find >it, you have a much better chance of getting an answer on the debian or >redhat mailing lists than this one. > > >rick > >-- >Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu >(319) 266-7114 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk >These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message