From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 12:55:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE83E37B423 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 33478A90D; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:54:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:54:22 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: "SPEAKEASY " Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <20010423145422.A4142@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010423143547.A3982@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bvagnoni@speakeasy.net on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:45:33PM -0400 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:45:33PM -0400, SPEAKEASY wrote: > Dear Everyone; > > What about compatiability with the Linux world will I be able to run stuff > compiled for Linux on freebsd without to much trouble? > > What about hardware compatibility just from reading the package it seems > that freebsd seems to support more hardware, is this true? > > > Sincerely > > Brian I've never had trouble with Linux programs under FreeBSD. You might not get the newest games running perfectly, but hey, this isn't an operating system for playing sophisticated games. In fact, that's what windows is good for: games. Linux is only half-assed for games. Hardware compatibility, if you ask me, is on par with Linux. The major difference between us and Linux is that we don't put drivers in the kernel that say "EXPERIMENTAL"... that's what -CURRENT is for. This means, for example, that you won't get ACPI in -STABLE, but the Linux kernel does have "support" for ACPI. However, it's barely functional, and can't be used to manage power consumption yet. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message