From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 9:31:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0026514BE7 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 09:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07278; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:30:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:18:56 -0600 To: Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Sanity regained -- back with the best In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:36 AM 7/18/99 -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >Feels so good to be back with FreeBSD. I cannot believe the difference between >it and Linux. Linux's multitasking can't hold a candle to FreeBSD's. No sir, >no way, no how. Tried playing MP3s under Linux on this 166 MHz box; choppy, >choppy, choppy. Under FreeBSD, smooth as butter. Simply no comparison. And >the RPM system doesn't even come close, IMHO, to matching FreeBSD's >ports/packages system. Yep, the only one that's better, IMHO, is Debian's; among other things, it lets you bring things in directly from a Web browser (such as Lynx). Speaking of which, what is the status of FreeBSD's new ports/packages system? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message