From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 21:06:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02679 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02668 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA05320; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 23:06:06 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199610090406.XAA05320@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 23:06:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Oct 8, 96 08:21:50 pm Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > > > >From a long time user of Linux (favorite distribution is > > Debian), and a newbie to FreeBSD, I'd have to say at this > > point that I prefer Linux. That is without consideration > > for ANY differences in the architecture or internals, and > > purely from a user perspective. The things I'm having > > problems with under FreeBSD (minicom, ppp, console behavior, > > memory utilization, fvwm95, etc, etc) all work flawlessly > > under Debian Linux. > > Because minicom and fvwm95 were written for linux and were ported/hacked > to FreeBSD. > I am really confused about the fvwm95 problem though. It works great for me and is now the only window manager that I use. There seems to be user error involved somewhere :-). I even use the fvwm95 distribution, and not our ports. John