From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 20: 7:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com [66.66.120.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B60C37B410 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 20:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 11DC5901A00; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:06:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:06:07 -0400 From: mpd To: Sanjay Bhattacharya Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long live The Penguin!!!! Message-ID: <20020626030607.GA23480@rochester.rr.com> References: <20020625135153.M403-100000@localhost> <5.1.1.6.2.20020625121305.03d1f270@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020625120402.A7861@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:27:09AM +0530, Sanjay Bhattacharya wrote: > Please guys (the anti Penguin lobby), relax. I've been making my bread and > butter out of Linux for the last 3 years. And I am a Sun Certified System > Administrator. Still I've chosen my work field to be Linux. Why? Because I > am in love with the penguin. As for me I haven't found anything that's > drastically wrong as it always happens with Winblows. On the contrary there > are revolutionary changes in 2.4 series kernels. One that has made my life a > lot easier is certianly netfilter/iptables. And as for the libc problem, a > little caution always saved my from big hassles. I am sort of a newbie to > FreeBSD. But one thing I dislike about it is ipfw. Its so complicated. In > contrast iptables in Linux is a pleasure to use. Apart from that upgrading > Linux kernel is an easy task. I always patch my kernel with the latest > updates and then I compile it. It runs like a dream. And believe me, I > haven't faced a single problem in the last three years. But one thing I > always avoid is rpm's. You might call me an old timer but I've my faith on > the sources. And the configure/make/make install/ has always given me what I > wanted. And to say nothing of the device recognition capabilities of the > Linux kernel. I thank my lucky stars again and again that I don't have to > bother about the HCL, thanks to Linux. So I think the Penguin is doing a > great job. And under no circumstances it is inferior to the daemon. I want > to conclude with the slogan ..."In Penguin I trust". > > rgds, > Sanjay > > And this pertains to FreeBSD how? You mentioned that you didn't like ipfw. Did you try ipf? Other than that, you sound like a salesman. This is a questions list. I get enough garbage e-mail as it is. Any follow-ups should be off-list, or moved to chat, or anywhere other than here. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "WITH A FEW SMALL MODIFICATIONS ANY CANOE CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME!!!" - Pokey the Penguin from "POKEY IN ANCIENT SCOTLAND" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message