From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 20 01:12:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA23963 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muddy.mojo.org (anton@muddy.mojo.org [194.159.247.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA23955 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anton@muddy.mojo.org) Received: (from anton@localhost) by muddy.mojo.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA29299; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:12:17 GMT Message-ID: <19980320091216.18372@mojo.org> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:12:16 +0000 From: Anton Angelo To: Sean Harding Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies list [was: partition spanning multiple drives] References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Sean Harding on Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 12:18:07AM -0800 x-url: http://www.clues.com/~anton x-erox: doughnuts Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sean Harding (sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu) said: > On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Manoli Piperakis wrote: > > > Hear hear ! Excellently put. Couldn't agree with you more - on all > > points. > > I don't think newbies are used as a laughing stock (unless they are asking > if they can run FreeBSD on WebTV, in which case it is deserved). If the > volume bothers you, you don't have to subscribe. Send questions to > questions@freebsd.org. Subscription to the list not required. Weeeeelllll... about the unix on webtv jibe, some of the set top boxes it has been my misfortune to "assess" for my work have run QNX, and few others various flavours of micro kernel unix. It makes sense really. I want to start a bit of a religious discussion comparing FreeBSD to Linux (specifically slackware). My experience is limited, but I have run a slackware box for a couple of years, and have started tinkering with FreeBSD in the last 6 months. I like the prefessional "feel" of FreeBSD, but the box does fall over for no reason that I. with only half a clue or less, cannot understand. My linux box however stood up for 150 days on a 386 with 4Meg RAM handling loadsaemail and even ran tin. ( a feat in itself in 4Meg :) It collapsed when the uptime figure got too large (well, that was the only reason I could work out...) So it seems to me that Slackware was "more stable" than FreeBSD. Nonetheless I'm moving my personal unix boxen to FreeBSD (apart from the 386 which I was thinking about seeing if I could get the source for minix for for a laugh) because its far easier to maintain - you have to love that ports collection. Speaking of which - can anyone recommend a free IMAP4 server for FreeBSD? Also is Qmail in the ports collection, I'm not smart enough to admin sendmail and I refuse to learn M4 just to build a config file! aa -- Nether Poppleton (n. obsolete) A pair of P. J. Proby's trousers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message