From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 8 20:41:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from flashmail.com (flashmail.com [207.173.216.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67CD51527E for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mholloway@flashmail.com) Received: from flashmail.com ([207.173.216.240]) by flashmail.com ; Mon, 08 Nov 1999 12:52:37 -0800 From: "Mark L. Holloway" Reply-To: mholloway@flashmail.com To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:52:37 -800 Subject: FreeBSD 3.3 works perfect.. X-Mailer: CWMail Web to Mail Gateway 2.0n, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <38273815.33.0@flashmail.com> X-User-Info: 24.234.2.17 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hmmm..after a few days of struggling, I finally placed a call to my local Cable Modem provider and at least they admitted they were having problems over the weekend. I just completed two installations via FTP on two Alphas using FreeBSD 3.3. It couldn't have gone any smoother! I'm so glad to see that FreeBSD is leaps and bounds ahead of Linux as for ease-of-installation. For kicks I had purchased Red Hat 6.0 for Alpha from Cheapbytes. Not only does it detect the wrong NIC types, but the net tools don't work. Red Hat's default "Workstation" installer slaps Gnome/Enlightenment on to the system which is OK, but there are many bugs. If you go to alphalinux.org you can see the numerous amounts of RPM files needed to render the system usable. I'm not trying to bash Linux, but more or less Red Hat's way of implimenting Linux on Alpha. I haven't tried Debian, TurboLinux, Stampede, or SuSe, so I can't comment...but overall, I really am impressed with FreeBSD on Alpha. Mark ______________________________________________________ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, & Fun !!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message