From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 3 4:31:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lindt.urgle.com (lindt.urgle.com [195.173.172.169]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A71343AB for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 04:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mike by lindt.urgle.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12GLQ7-0002yR-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:31:35 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:31:35 +0000 From: Mike Bristow To: Alex Zepeda Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search Message-ID: <20000203123135.A10816@lindt.urgle.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jazepeda@pacbell.net on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:59:08PM -0800 X-Rated: nuclear, www.ntk.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:59:08PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn't love em?), I hear > > the above quite a lot. > > > > I'm under the firm belief that a decent sys admin can rub either system to > > do whatever they want it to do. Not that I am questioning your abilities. > > I just get the "yeah, Linux is good, but just try to use it in a > > production environment and you'll understand" a lot. > > Needless to say I think that FreeBSD makes a great desktop environment > too. What contributes to server sanity also makes things much less > confusing for a desktop user too :) True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk may turn turn into ext2 rather than ffs) The other 2 boxes will, of course, stay FreeBSD. I generally get the feeling that `Workstation Hardware'[1] has a better chance of being supported under Linux than FreeBSD. I may be talking rubbish, though ;-) [1] SoundCards; funky USB magic to talk to your digital camera; that kind of thing. -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message