Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 19:30:38 -0400 (EDT) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux Message-ID: <XFMail.961009193155.wb2oyc@cyberenet.net> In-Reply-To: <199610090311.UAA29231@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Ahem!
i found the same thing to be true about driving on the
"wrong" side of the street when i was in england.
3 weeks to doing solved that problem. perhaps you
know how to do all these things in Linux and are not
happy having to relearn Unix.
>
> In case you didn't know it, Linux IS Unix! :) You didn't read,
> or if you did, you surely didn't understand what I said. Why
> should these app's that are the same be any different, functionally
> when running on FreeBSD, when they work fine on Linux! Thats all
> I said.
>
fvwm, memory utilization, ppp, console, (dont use minicom)
all work under FreeBSD.
>
> Not really! They don't work here. Certainly not properly!
> Especially minicom. I can't get user mode ppp to dial properly
> and have to use term mode to setup a connection. Minicom does not
> work in an RXVT session, and xminicom doesn't work at all. Fvwm95
> will not find all the icons (which are useful to me due to the
> medical problems I deal with).
>
if you just want a desktop box, use whatever you want.
if you want the most robust, cost effective, networking
computer use FreeBSD.
>
> No, I'm disabled, and I work from home. What I need, is a real
> operating system, that is dependable, fast, and as bullet proof
> as I can find. Thats what made me give up on DOS/Windows in the
> first place, and started me into trying first OS/2, then Linux,
> NT and now FreeBSD. Both Linux and FreeBSD are far superior to
> anything yet seen from Redmond, in my estimation, which is why I
> don't use that stuff. But, there are things that I NEED to work,
> and work well every time. What I'm finding is that things I need
> and depend on when running Linux, don't work properly on FreeBSD.
> Period.
>
> There is no difference in cost of FreeBSD versus Linux. They're
> both "free". The difference I'm finding is that the stuff works
> under Linux, and the very same stuff doesn't work properly, or at
> all under FreeBSD. As for the robust networking, they're the same
> in that regard, with the network code being so tightly coupled, or
> is it, integrated with the kernel. In fact, I find that Linux
> thruput is better (using PPP--on my FreeBSD I use 'user mode ppp')
> using the very same hardware, down to the port itself. This is
> the very same machine, in this case. Not a different box.
>
different needs, different solutions
ps. what's the most heavily loaded linux web|ftp server you have
heard of? can it do 115GB a day? 2.5MB/s all day and
1.3MB/s all night?
and still not break a sweat ;)
>
> This kind of comment was precisely my point. Techno mumbo jumbo.
> The same box running Linux would do the same thing if you care to
> know the truth of the matter. But, so what? I'm talking about
> things that work well under Linux, and poorly or not at all on
> FreeBSD. I was disappointed, and surprised, to find that to be
> the case to be quite honest with you. Plus, there's other nonsense
> giving me fits with FreeBSD, like whenever I exit 'X' my shell does
> not work! Does wild and crazy things UNTIL I hit Ctrl C a couple
> of times! Never saw this kind of nonsense on Linux. Just pressing
> 'Enter' may clear the screen, beep a few times, and print some
> hieroglyphics. Not my idea of ROBUST, rock solid..... If thats
> considered the norm I'd be surprised, and I guess I'm wasting my
> time with this. I wanted to find out the difference between Linux
> and FreeBSD. Maybe I have, and just don't know it yet. Then again,
> maybe I'm just spoiled from having used Debian for so long now.
>
Paul
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