From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 20:29:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D9CA37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 60576 invoked by uid 100); 13 Mar 2001 04:29:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15021.41509.272331.128233@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:29:25 -0600 To: David Kelly Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) In-Reply-To: <89621246@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kelly 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. 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