Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:29:25 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <15021.41509.272331.128233@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <89621246@toto.iv>
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David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> types: > Christopher Farley writes: > > Ben (ben@cahostnet.com) wrote: > > > Large hardware support > > Because of its larger user base, Linux has better hardware support, > > however FreeBSD's hardware support may be sufficient for your needs. > larger != better Also, more popular != better. Given the choice between making FreeBSD more popular, and making it better, I'll take better - every time. > > You specifically mentioned cd burners and sound cards. My experience > > is this: on FreeBSD you will be better off with SCSI cd drives, > > particularly if you want to do disk-at-once copying. > Believe Soren has put everything in the FreeBSD kernel for such in the > ATA driver. Only waiting on somebody to customize the popular utilties > (such as cdrdao) to the interface. I thought they were waiting for CAM support for the ATA devices. That's how cdrecord & cdrdao work on Linux ATA devices, or FreeBSD USB devices. > > Linux upgrades usually require waiting for the latest release. > > Between releases, you may need to upgrade specific binary files if there > > is a security problem. > > Using the FreeBSD system there has been a time or two that I've needed > to move something back a version. Gee, I went through that with libgtk 1.2.9 vs. 1.2.8 and ApplixWare Office just today. I found what I believe to be the problem, and hope the port author will fix it before the port is udpated again. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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