Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:30:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980728090257.10378C-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9807242136320.1169-100000@guerilla.foo.bar>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > * Of course there are minor differences wich can be important depending on > > what you want to do, e.g.: > > - more commercial software for Linux > > - greater popularity of Linux > > - file size is still limited to 2 GB with Linux ext2fs > > Since version 0.5a of ext2fs it supports 2GB+ Yes - file system size is >2GB but *not* file size! `off_t' is just a long - and have you an idea how to address more then 2GB with 32 bit? In FreeBSD as in 4.4BSD off_t is 64 bit! > > - Linux scheduling algorithm is poor on high system load > > (THUS - to run an internet server I'd prefer FreeBSD!) > > Which of the scheduling algorithms do you mean? There are actually three I > remember now (rr, fifo, other). And there is Linux-rt (realtime support). > Does FreeBSD have this? Excuse me - is Linux so confusing? I thought the kernel sources are uniform. I've seen just one scheduler in the kernel source. Concerning real time support - I don't know about it in FreeBSD. > And dont't forget: Linux supports SMP hardware since somewhere in 1.3.x > days. FreeBSD does not. I read sth that FreeBSD 3.0 might support it... It will! > I installed FreeBSD some days ago on one of my machines and I found it > first a little bit confusing... I searched for the /usr/src/sys tree a > little bit too long ;) Depending on one's experience it's question of time to get accustomed to a system. I need more time to look for something in Linux ... :-) > BTW, is there some "nicer" interface for configuring the kernel? While > compiling the kernel first, I got some undefined references to > __isa_devtab_cam which were solved with hacking around a little bit > (#define _ISA_DEVTAB_CAM_NOT_EXTERN) Hmm - did you copy the GENERIC kernel config file, edit it and run the config program? > > * FreeBSD evolved from the BSD branch of UNIX and thus is a UNIX > > derivative. Linux started from Tanenbaum's Minix and is a > > reimplementation of the UNIX interface. > > Linux DID NOT start from Minix. Linux was complety written from scratch. > You should read the comp.os.minix newsgroup archiv where Tanenbaum and > Linus started their first argument... I did not want to say that the Linux contains Minix code - I don't know. But as far as I know Linus T startet the development of Linux on an Minix system. Regards Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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