From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 19:58:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AD6937B400 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23587 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jun 2002 02:58:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO corrsl7vs6l3tz) (203.200.184.65) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 02:58:24 -0000 Message-ID: <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> From: "Sanjay Bhattacharya" To: References: <20020625135153.M403-100000@localhost> <5.1.1.6.2.20020625121305.03d1f270@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020625120402.A7861@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> Subject: Long live The Penguin!!!! Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:27:09 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please guys (the anti Penguin lobby), relax. I've been making my bread and butter out of Linux for the last 3 years. And I am a Sun Certified System Administrator. Still I've chosen my work field to be Linux. Why? Because I am in love with the penguin. As for me I haven't found anything that's drastically wrong as it always happens with Winblows. On the contrary there are revolutionary changes in 2.4 series kernels. One that has made my life a lot easier is certianly netfilter/iptables. And as for the libc problem, a little caution always saved my from big hassles. I am sort of a newbie to FreeBSD. But one thing I dislike about it is ipfw. Its so complicated. In contrast iptables in Linux is a pleasure to use. Apart from that upgrading Linux kernel is an easy task. I always patch my kernel with the latest updates and then I compile it. It runs like a dream. And believe me, I haven't faced a single problem in the last three years. But one thing I always avoid is rpm's. You might call me an old timer but I've my faith on the sources. And the configure/make/make install/ has always given me what I wanted. And to say nothing of the device recognition capabilities of the Linux kernel. I thank my lucky stars again and again that I don't have to bother about the HCL, thanks to Linux. So I think the Penguin is doing a great job. And under no circumstances it is inferior to the daemon. I want to conclude with the slogan ..."In Penguin I trust". rgds, Sanjay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message