From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 18 15:23:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9745A37B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8904543F75 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18lH4w-0000ph-00; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:23:10 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1INN9Pe086525; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:23:09 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1INN9V0086524; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:23:09 GMT Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:23:09 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Haikal Saadh Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD architecture over Linux? Message-ID: <20030218232309.GA86388@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20030215054352.GC35069@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18lH4w-0000ph-00*ZA9vV9NBy1.* Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:52:28PM -0800, Haikal Saadh wrote: : >From personal experience, : o We just got CardBus while linux has had cardbus support for a : while. When I switched, I ran into a similar problem with parallel port zip drives. However, after looking at the Linux code and then the existing FreeBSD code, there is no question which one I would trust more. ;-) : o Debian's packaging system has optional dependencies, whilst the : closest this freebsd has is using WITH_SOMETHING or WITHOUT_SOMETHING : in while make'ing. (Either that or hack makefile :D ) I guess I'm fortunate this hasn't caused a problem for me, at least not that I am aware of. Then again, it's nice to have portugrade to hold my hand. : o Linux kernel compile/install process is still a Royal PITA. FreeBSD : is as easy as a make buildkernel and a make installkernel. Ah, yes. Thanks for reminding me of this. It's been a long time since I did a Linux kernel customization. : o We have background fsck. I didn't think this was that important, : but when I actually saw it in action, I was impressed. It sounds very cool. Fortunately, my laptop doesn't crash often, so fscking isn't something I deal with often. Jonathon -- When I die, I want to go in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming, like the passengers in his car. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message