Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:09:06 -0800 (PST) From: RCB <rbeer@jaguar.cris.com> To: www@freebsd.org Subject: General comments Message-ID: <199703120709.XAA26760@jaguar.cris.com>
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I was not sure who specifically should receive this mail so I hope 'www' will forward it to the right person/people! Thanks! I started using FreeBSD in early 8/95 (converted from Linux when things started getting flaky with the elf hacks in the 1.2.x tree), and went back to Linux (Caldera CND-1.0) around 9/96 (for the Netware connectivity and the accelerated X server in one package). Last week, I purchased Caldera OpenLinux Base 1.0, and have been very disappointed for many reasons. It is very nice getting back to FreeBSD, to a stable and excellent performing system and kernel. All of those responsible have my respect! From my perspective, It boggles my mind why Caldera selected Linux instead of FreeBSD. The biggest "issue" I ran into was installing FreeBSD at home on a 2-SCSI disk system. My first scsi drive is for Windows, my second scsi drive has FreeBSD installed. It was not clear how to have the FreeBSD boot manager installed on the first SCSI drive and allow it to boot either the Win95 or FreeBSD systems. Reading the handbook and all associated documentation that I could find did not help. I ended up going out and purchasing "System Commander" which did the job beautifully. (FWIW, Redhat/Caldera LILO installation/configuration is very clean and easy to set up such a dual boot system). That is about it. Again, great work. After all the headaches and hours of wasted time due to sloppy Linux distributions, poor testing, and extensively bloated kernels, I think I'll stick with FreeBSD. Thanks, Rich
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