Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:03:04 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Rogers Pessin <rpessin@digital-storm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960314075528.23307R-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <31473E39.1DF4@digital-storm.com>
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Rogers Pessin wrote: > Hi, > I am in the process now of deciding on whether to get FreeBSD or > Linux to install on my 486/DX2 at home. I'm tending towards FreeBSD > at this time but have a few questions I'm hoping you might be able > to answer. > > 1) First off, why would you suggest FreeBSD over Linux, or vice-versa? > Does one have strengths over the other in any particular thing? Linux has more hardware driver variety, freebsd seems alot more stable and faster with disk accesses. > > 2) How complete is FreeBSD's ability to emulate Linux (which would let > me have the best of both worlds possibly)? > Dunno - dont care > 3) In the news groups someone talked about preferring FreeBSD over > Linux because the former is an actual OS while the latter is just > a kernel... could you explain this difference to me? (not sure of > the difference between the two and the implications of such) I believe (but im no authority) that the people doing the kernal in freebsd also do all the associated programs like ls, pwd, rmdir, etc etc etc - whereas with linux just the kernal itself is linux, and all of the other commands are written by a cast of thousands, or by the maker of a 'package' like slakware or redhat. Its not a good argument to go either way. > > 4) Linux has ELF files (or something along those lines), yet from what > I've read it seems FreeBSD does not. What is the significance of this? You dont get your shoes fixed while you are sleeping... er no thats in fairy tale land... Actually I dunno what difference it makes.. I run a linux, 3 sco's and 3 bsd's from 2.0 thru 2.1. The bsd's are the least problematic or crashy, and the most robust - the sco's are the most crashy but the more complete with things like lockd, but less complete as with their YP stuff (Im looking to retiring the sco's in favor of freebsd). The linux had the hardware drivers I needed back when i needed them this that one box's existance. I used linux way back for a news server and it crashed way to frequently under the load. i now use freebsd and almost never (knock on wood) suffer a crash even though the version I use hs known problems in the driver for the disk controller I use.
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