From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 19 15:18: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABA537B423 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owp.csus.edu (twvaro@[130.86.77.19]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA58189; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <39C7E4FD.9892247B@owp.csus.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:13:17 -0700 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Taylor Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nice comments about FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was digging around getting ready to install FreeBSD on our "it'll be > there RSN" new astronomical image processing computer. Many, if not most, > astronomers use the IRAF software > > (http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html) > > to do their image processing. There are FBSD builds available (which is > nice). In their README file you find the following comments (whether they > are absolutely correct or not is up to you, they're certainly > complimentary): > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > o FreeBSD [dist: fbsd arch: freebsd] > > Install and use the freebsd binaries. You might be able to run the linux > binaries in compatibility mode (FreeBSD can run some Linux binaries), but > currently FreeBSD does not support ELF. FreeBSD is arguably the most ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I believe the move to ELF was back in 3.x, they may wish to update this info. > solid, workstation class PC operating system currently available. Very > popular for servers. May be a better multiprocess system than Linux but > Linux may be a better single user system. More stable than Linux and > avoids the similar-but-different multiple distributions problem which > plagues Linux, but Linux is more popular and supports a wider range of > hardware and add-on software (although the difference is getting pretty > small). -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu The Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message