Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:56:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: gyc@ftdetrck-ose1.army.mil, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advice Message-ID: <199509082156.OAA01484@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950908155828.6345J-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 8, 95 04:12:39 pm
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A couple of points to add.. > > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, GREG CASTELLUCCI wrote: > > A feature of FreeBSD, our ports collection, make building applications > incredibly simple, and the collection is _huge_. On the other hand, > Linux seems to have a larger base of software written specifically for > it. Maybe more commercial applications, altho we are getting > compatibility for that, even as I type this (mostly in place or in test). (meaning that we can run linux programs so anything written for them is ok by us) > > Linux's filesystem might be somewhat faster. FreeBSD's filesystem code > has taken a deliberate move toward extra safety at some loss in speed. I > can shut my machine off right now, and be much less likely to suffer any > filesystem damage at all. Ask a Linux user about lost files from power > outages. I've lost one file in 18 months (hardware problem). we have linux filesystem code coming on line too in a short while.. > > All in all, the differences aren't large, and anyone who tells you that > one is MUCH better than the other is either misinformed or untrustworthy. > The differences are more in style than anything else. > >
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