From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 11:54: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.gt (ns.gt [168.234.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D35514DFE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from victorc@BitSmart.com) Received: from BitSmart.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.gt (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03280 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:53:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from victorc@BitSmart.com) Message-ID: <3756CF1E.584C082B@BitSmart.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:53:18 -0600 From: Victor Carranza X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bye-bye Windows References: <9906020808.AA16661@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gregory Lewis wrote: > > > > > The main difference I see is that Linux is for desktops. FreeBSD is for > > servers/high performance workstations, etc. Desktops are much more > > popular so Linux seems to be. > > I'm interested in why you believe Linux is for desktops and FreeBSD isn't. > I don't know of many (any?) desktop applications that will run on Linux and > not FreeBSD. I don't wish to be rude, but by making such a statement you > perpetuate a myth which is causing people to install Linux instead of > FreeBSD on their home machines when there is no need to. Well... maybe there is a lack of documents/tutorials on how to run Linux software on FreeBSD. It is not THAT easy... in fact, it can be frustrating to get a Linux package running smoothly on FreeBSD. Last week I posted a question about that (no replies at all). In my particular case, I will probably resort to install a Linux box, just to run my Tripp-Lite UPS monitoring software! (all my other servers are FreeBSD, with their "Powered by FreeBSD" logo plates on them). You cannot tell people that they can run Linux software in a FreeBSD box without first warning them about the hassles of finding missing libraries, making links with different names to existing ones, changing kernel options/recompiling, etc. etc. Maybe it is time for a "Step by step guide for running SCO and Linux apps on FreeBSD", with contributions from all users who have successfuly managed to do it :) > Equally, to be > fair to the Linux camp, its wrong to say that Linux isn't for servers. > Both are well written, powerful, modern Unix-like operating systems -- > which you use for any given application is pretty much a matter of taste. Maybe... but Linux is not as reliable and powerful in this field. That's why I have upgraded all servers here to FreeBSD, and solved a lot of problems by doing so! :) -Victor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message