From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 19:49:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03588 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03577 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spirit.ki.net (root@spirit.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id WAA21517; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:49:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by spirit.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA09025; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:49:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: spirit.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:49:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" Reply-To: chat@freebsd.org To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: FreeBSD - Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk NOTE: Follow-ups should go to chat@freebsd.org...see headers On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > >PPP hasn't ever been a > >problem (except the iijppp config is a bit tricky at first.) > > I have to use 'term' mode. It refuses to dial my ISP. Once the > session is established manually, it works fine. The thruput may not > be the same, but its close enough to not be an issue. > Might want to post your ijppp config files under a different subject to see if anyone can spot the problem here... > >Console behavior > >is pretty darned good under FreeBSD (I have heard complaints about the > > Really? Not here. On exiting 'X' its nuts. Or is that the norm? > Using what as a term type? If I try the console using vt100, yes...its completely nuts. Using consXX (where XX == 25, 50, 60), it works beautifully... > The real truth is, Linux is good; very good. And you're not as far > ahead as you think you are. Not by a long shot. > At least from an end-users standpoint...about the only thing that i've seen you argue about is minicom...and if I recall correctly, minicom was designed under Linux. *shrug* > But, I expected some on the list may be sensitive, maybe overly so, to > any comparison. And, if you go back to my original message on this, > you'll see that I stated in plain English, that I did NOT consider ANY > differences in the internals or architecture itself between the two. > I'll say it again. All I said was that these applications that work > flawlessly on Linux, work poorly or not at all, on FreeBSD. Period. > I don't care a wit about the differences in the OS's themselves, and > can't really talk about that since I don't have the expertise. I don't > care about the techno mumbo jumbo, and I said so. My concern is about > these few app's that work on one, and not the other. Again, period... > They both have their warts; they're Un*x. > Ah, okay...so, let's qualify your above statement about us not being as far ahead as we think we are...as far as being able to run Linux-designed softare is concerned, we aren't as far ahead as we thought... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org