Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:13:15 -0400 From: "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need comparative data Message-ID: <19990805231315.B8190@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199908021049.GAA03841@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 06:49:38AM -0400 References: <67650953.933580567520.JavaMail.nobody@shell5.ba.best.com> <199908021049.GAA03841@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 06:49:38AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Those same packages come pre-built on FreeBSD as well. Many believe > our `ports/packages' mechanism is much better than the RPM approach. > I certainly do. I have a two boxes running RH6.0 and am constantly frustrated by dependancy problems everytime I try to install an RPM. It seems that even a minor version change on a library breaks everything. Also there is nothing comparable to cvsup /etc/cvsupfile make world on Linux that I have found. I also find building a custom kernel on FreeBSD to be much easier. ( what's with the limit on kernel size in linux anyway? ) I of course could be suffering from a case of learning a BSD first. > All you need to do is download the package and say `package_add'. > You can also just pass package_add a URL I think. > In my personal experience, they (FreeBSD and Linux) are about the > same for reliability. Granted this is a single datapoint but I have never had FreeBSD lock up but I have had Linux lock up several times. Typically it is caused by Netscape which is unreliable on both systems but I have had it ( Netscape ) crash to the point that I have to reboot Linux but have always been able to recover with FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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