Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:11:06 +0200 From: "stop here. start everywhere." <feedback@phpStop.com> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Frederik Meerwaldt <frederik@freddym.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <39F3902A.6846BB49@phpStop.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010212333001.18742-100000@server.wes.mee.com> <39F3609E.83C02B3E@bellatlantic.net> <39F38893.6A8204A@bellatlantic.net>
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Hi all again,
Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD
has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world"
command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to
upgrade the whole system in one shot?
What if something breaks down after you've recompiled? Your system would
be dead. In Linux, on the contrary, there's no such feature and you'll
need to take the server anyways to upgrade it, which seems as a good way
of doing things. In the meantime, another backup server can take its
position. I guess in this fashion, Linux is better than FreeBSD... or
did I miss something here?
/John
Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> By the way, speaking of that, things in FreeBSD tend to be more
> synchronous with docs than in Linux. Also FreeBSD has much better
> backwards compatibility (though alas still not as good as commercial
> systems). In Linux the applications tend to break and require
> recompilation when the kernel is upgraded to the next
> second-digit version.
>
> -SB
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