Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 08:58:23 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, lucas@slb.to, lisa@toon.com Subject: Re: Questions questions questions Message-ID: <F184jUHQHh2wLCVYl4m00000bb9@hotmail.com>
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> > One final question, in your humble opinion... Debian or FreeBSD? > > What do you think? And WHY? > >I answer questions on this list, so clearly I prefer FreeBSD for most >things. Three words: It doesn't crash. Ever. The only time I've >ever gotten the OS to panic is by giving it a bad memory chip. I've >gotten various Linux distributions to crash under lots of different >circumstances, most of which I still haven't figured out. Clearly, >YMMV applies. I dunno, I got FreeBSD to crash once. Try running the statically compiled i686 version of Seti@home for Linux. It rebooted my system every time (after warning me, somehow). I agree that FreeBSD is more stable, but both are really so stable that it is almost a non-issue. Almost. To the FreeBSD/Debian guy: FreeBSD is easier to manage once it is up. While Debian has its excellent apt-get utility, FreeBSD is easier still to update. I have my system update itself weekly using CVSup. Additionally, besides the small inherant performance benefits of using FreeBSD over Linux, you can further increase performance by using "make world" with make.conf options which recompiles every standard executable (and library, etc) on the system with options that you specify. Debian, on the other hand, is compiled for a 386 and you are pretty much stuck with that unless you manually recompile everything--quite a project. Be careful with this though--GCC isn't perfect. I have killed my system by overoptimizing my kernel, which GCC screwed up on and made my system unbootable. Good thing for backup floppies. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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