From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 19 16:25:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net (ith1-379.twcny.rr.com [24.24.11.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0120B1514C for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc26@tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net) Received: (from cjc26@localhost) by tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA34325; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:23:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc26) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:23:12 -0500 From: Cliff Crawford To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: General thoughts and questions on FreeBSD] Message-ID: <19991119192312.H33821@cornell.edu> Reply-To: cjc26@cornell.edu References: <3835E44A.6670C554@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <3835E44A.6670C554@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Jonathon McKitrick menulis: > > Any thoughts on his kernel issues? Those seem to be the only ones that > are major issues here. Is FreeBSD 'quirky' ? And what > advantages/disadvantages does FreeBSD kernel configuration have compared > to Linux ? *jaw drops* Your hax0r friend has some `interesting' opinions..:) Personally, I think editing a text file to do kernel config is MUCH more straightforward then going thru Linux's menu-based gauntlet. From what I remember (the last time I compiled a Linux kernel was over a year ago), you had to be careful not to do a `make clean' else you wipe out all your settings..that got me a few times. And I think it's easier to just scroll around/search through a text file than to wade through several levels of menus just to get to the one option you want to change. Also, you have to remember to run lilo every time you install a new kernel, or else you'll boot with the old kernel. As for the quirkiness issue.."Linux isn't quirky" my ass. I find Linux needing 2 or 3 seperate partitions for itself to be pretty quirky. I'm also annoyed by the way rm is aliased to `rm -i' by default on Red Hat. And Mklinux's inability to deal with >2Gb partitions is real cute. Actually, the fact that there's so many different distributions, each with their own unique quirks, is a quirk in itself :) Finally, I despise runlevels and fourteen bazillion rc.d scripts. -- cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ -><- "No! It's Java!!" -- Nikita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message