From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 9:54:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82EF37B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from 7521.net (esabowski-01.dslbr.toad.net [162.33.154.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D398143F65 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:54:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from airyk@7521.net) Received: (qmail 966 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2003 17:54:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hobbes.7521.net) (10.10.0.220) by 7521.net with SMTP; 11 Jan 2003 17:54:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Erik Sabowski Organization: 7521 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:54:19 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: ytwok_karate@hotmail.com References: <20030110070441.N31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20030110070441.N31332-100000@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301111254.19553.airyk@7521.net> 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 > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, James Hicks wrote: > require any kind of defrag? I was told by my UNIX instructor that > freebsd had hardware recognition trouble. Is this true and if so has it > been fixed? of the 3 or 4 linux distros I have experience with, one 1 has not require= d me=20 to manually add a device driver or two. despite the lack of "prettyness" = of=20 freebsd's installer, I find freebsd to be by far quicker and easier to=20 install. I have also found that freebsd's ports are easier to install and= =20 maintain that linux's rpms. > to use freebsd. What is the problem that I'm hearing that linux has? Do > you believe the berkeley system to have code that has better stability > than the GNU systems? I look forward to your reply. Thanks you aren't really going to get a truly partial answer to that question on= this=20 mailing list, I think just about everyone will tell you that freebsd wins= in=20 the stability department. but in all my dealings with linux, i never once= =20 heard someone say linux was more stable than freebsd :) erik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message