From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 14 2:12:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9D2153D9 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29744; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:12:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:12:10 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Dovydas Kulvinskas Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD?] In-Reply-To: <378C525A.59DD2134@kada.lt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Dovydas Kulvinskas wrote: > > Wow .. they're obviously on crack, too. I quote: > > > > "Linux is the first open-standards-based 32-bit operating system that > > combines the advantages of a UNIX system with an Intel-based platform." > > > > Since when? > > Hi > > I think it's not only 32-bit but 64-bit OS - Linux for Alpha. & what > about FreeBSD for alpha? Linux is better than FreeBSD. Better programing > platform, more scalable & reliable. For FreeBSD is very difficult to use > glibc & for Linux it's native libraries. Excuse me? FreeBSD works just fine on alpha (I'm typing this on an alpha box running X). I use Linux and FreeBSD for programming and they both support the same set of apis so there is little difference. The glibc library is certainly not needed for FreeBSD since we have a perfectly good libc of our own, thank you. As far as usability goes, I actually think FreeBSD has the edge due to the excellent ports collection. > > Linux fan. FreeBSD fan. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message