From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 12:13:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns3.zoomnet.net (ns3.zoomnet.net [206.230.102.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B5514C15 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cygone@zoomnet.net) Received: from cygone (cygone.zoomnet.net [208.32.49.7]) by ns3.zoomnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA28377 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:13:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <017601beadf4$e052c9a0$0200000a@cygone.zoomnet.net> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: Subject: Re: Bye-bye Windows Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:11:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Linux has the media hype, commercial companies and the whole public fight with M$ behind it.. That's why more software has been developed for it than FreeBSD even though I think everyone agrees that FreeBSD is more stable and in many other ways "better". I never hear M$ trashing FreeBSD publicly, I wonder why that is? *grin* -Mitch "When all your plans fail, backup, re-group and press on. The only real failure is quitting..." -----Original Message----- From: Victor Carranza Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Bye-bye Windows >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