From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 1 8:32:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8911637B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (ANNEX-3.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.3]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f31FTFr27725; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 11:29:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 11:29:03 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18 vs. FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <86430000.986138943@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, April 01, 2001 16:52:13 +0200, "Hartmann, O." wrote: +----- | 10:30 am they came and prepared for the installation. 19:00 in the | evening they were not ready with installation after several hardware | changes, tricks, new kernels and other twaekings ... SuSe Linux 7.1 | wasn't able to occuppy this machine although the professionals accused +--->8 As much as I prefer FreeBSD over Linux, I think you have more proof of moron "installers" there; we have both FreeBSD and SuSE Linux (and I personally support the latter, including 7.1), and neither has any such problems in my experience. Both support mostly the same hardware. (SuSE and Debian go a long way toward making Linux tolerable, if not the quality OS that FreeBSD is.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message