Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:18:43 -0700 From: Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux on TechTV September 2, 7pm EDT (Live) Message-ID: <20030902011843.B7129@knight.ixsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <3F54535E.4070003@sitetronics.com>; from dodell@sitetronics.com on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:22:54AM %2B0200 References: <20030902011548.I323@freebsdmall.com> <3F54535E.4070003@sitetronics.com>
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:22:54AM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > I hope these boxes are preconfigured. See if you can fit ports in > anywhere... also see if you can fit in the FS structure. Those are two > things that go unnoticed and are two things that Linux has HUGE problems > with -- packages suck and there's really no standardized filesystem. > Installing and configuring packages is a nightmare. I'd suggest > installing something from ports (I dunno, blackbox or xmame or > something) and display how orderly it goes :). It can't hurt to show > that FBSD Is Consistent. yup, that's the plan. working on the box now. we had originally planned a server 'shootout' but I think both the linux guys and the TechTV producers wanted something more 'fun' > Unfortunately, we're going head to head with a kernel that's being used > in a lot of desktop-oriented things. There's no way FBSD will win a > desktop battle... especially not when the Linux guys break out VMware 4 > -- which is one of a few apps that FBSD can't emulate due to its kernel > hooks. yeah, true. hopefully, they didn't think of that ;) I tried working with the transgaming.com folks to get some windows games going, but they hadn't tested on FreeBSD for a few revs and it didn't fly... cheers, -matt
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