Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:56:59 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux on TechTV September 2, 7pm EDT (Live) Message-ID: <3F545B5B.4070003@sitetronics.com>
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Ergh. Forgot to send this to the list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux on TechTV September 2, 7pm EDT (Live) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:56:13 +0200 From: Devon H. O'Dell <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> References: <20030902011548.I323@freebsdmall.com> <3F54535E.4070003@sitetronics.com> <20030902011843.B7129@knight.ixsystems.net> When is this going live? I can try to run a few shareware apps in Wine really quickly... it usually works without giving too much crap :) I'm sure it's been shown on techtv before, but playing xbill can't hurt ;) Also perhaps that nethack GUI -- it looks pretty fun (but I dunno, never played it, just seen screenshots). Also don't forget to get flash player 6 working under linux emu. They'll definitely throw that at you -- and if they don't, reinforce that it's there in bsd as well ;) Anyway, lemme know when this is going live and I'll try to think of a few more ideas :) --Devon Matt Olander wrote: >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:22:54AM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > >>I hope these boxes are preconfigured. See if you can fit ports in >>anywhere... also see if you can fit in the FS structure. Those are two >>things that go unnoticed and are two things that Linux has HUGE problems >>with -- packages suck and there's really no standardized filesystem. >>Installing and configuring packages is a nightmare. I'd suggest >>installing something from ports (I dunno, blackbox or xmame or >>something) and display how orderly it goes :). It can't hurt to show >>that FBSD Is Consistent. >> >> > >yup, that's the plan. working on the box now. we had originally planned >a server 'shootout' but I think both the linux guys and the TechTV >producers wanted something more 'fun' > > > >>Unfortunately, we're going head to head with a kernel that's being used >>in a lot of desktop-oriented things. There's no way FBSD will win a >>desktop battle... especially not when the Linux guys break out VMware 4 >>-- which is one of a few apps that FBSD can't emulate due to its kernel >>hooks. >> >> > >yeah, true. hopefully, they didn't think of that ;) >I tried working with the transgaming.com folks to get some windows games >going, but they hadn't tested on FreeBSD for a few revs and it didn't >fly... > >cheers, >-matt > > > >
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