From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 20:17:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.103.39.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC1D37B400 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 20:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 569 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jun 2002 03:17:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:17:38 -0400 From: Miroslav Pendev Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long live The Penguin!!!! Message-ID: <20020626031738.GA252@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.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> X-Divine-Shadow-Zone: Beware of Lexxx! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6 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 How your decision is related to FreeBSD questions? If you love Linux - I do not care ... nobody's perfect ;-) It takes some time... If you need to ask somebody for help go ahead, ask... this is the right place to ask... questions@freeebsd.org Otherwise, your email is nothing more than just only your opinion... --Miro -OT If you are such Linux lover why you are using MS Outlook Express instead of something "Penguin-nish"? Or it is too hard to work without 'point and click' interface? ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message