From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 12:27:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0405156A5 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip169.r14.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.175.169]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25798 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:27:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:23:40 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > Well, I've recently switched from being a strictly linux user to a > strictly FreeBSD user for all of our operations here as well as my > personal workstations. Here are the reasons why. > > #1 Linux is becoming diluted. You can't install anything without grabing > some obscure lib. > > #2 Linux can't just do a makeworld after a cvsup and rebuild to the most > recent version of essentialy everything important. > > #3 Truth be told, linux is not half as stable as FreeBSD. I don't know if that's a fact or not, but I noticed that while running X, FreeBSD seems much more stable than linux. > #4 I don't like the fact that Linux is attempting to be the next > MS. Now that RedHat has gone public, they have people to answer to and > margins to aspire to just like MS. This causes things to be rushed to > market to soon and a degredation of code. Or should I just say sloppier > code. I tend to agree, but we won't know until they've been at it for awhile. > #5 FreeBSD may be slower in coming out with options and features but at > least when they do they are essentialy sound and stable. > > #6 You never realy notice how increadibly slow Linux is until you get into > FreeBSD. I was astounded at the difference. Just in running Windowmaker > between the two OS's on identical machines will show big differences. > > #7 One word "ports" how freakin kewl an idea is that.. I love it. That > alone is a reason to use FreeBSD. Makes RPM's look like old school slop. I cannot agree here. I've had too many Error Code 1's while building ports, and even a few kernel panics. I think the ports have a long way to go. FreeBSD could use a better packaging system for the installation of binaries for those of us who don't want to compile every program we put on our systems. "pkg_add" is adequate, but not nearly as advanced as rpm. -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message