Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:38:31 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD in c't 10/2000 Message-ID: <20000511173831.A12410@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
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Hello everybody! The German mag c't is at it again: In its current edition (10/2000) on page 90 there is an article by Suzanne Schmidt titled: "FreeBSD the fourth". It is a rather well-written introductory piece about the OS, its installation and some of its capabilities (although the difference between CVS and cvsup did not make much sense to the author, I think.) Also she emphasizes the IPv6 stack, jail, linux ABI compatibility and softupdates, she says it worked even after 80 attempts of unclean shutdowns. Well.:-) Even the major differences between Linux and FreeBSD and the BSDL and GPL are highlighted. The article also tells about a German distribution by Fachbuchhandlung Lehmann which carries the international crypto by default and some German docs too. It says as the bottom line: "If you find Linux too boring, or like BSD better anyway or find the little and red BSD daemon sweeter than the Linux penguin, you should try the CD by Lehmann. FreeBSD does no worse than Linux in terms of functionality, stability and usability." A good attention-getter for FreeBSD overall, the pictures show off a piece of the dmesg output, a dir listing of the Ports Collection and the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file in an xterm. The article is not available online. Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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