Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:41:05 -0500 From: "Michael Conlen" <meconlen@obfuscated.net> To: "Duraid" <latif2221@home.com>, "Tony Storm" <tplastics@hanginbrain.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Linux or FreeBSD Message-ID: <NFBBJNNKKLIPPJPMCEAPIEAICDAA.meconlen@obfuscated.net> In-Reply-To: <3AAC4830.48EE984E@home.com>
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there are a few other reasons to go with FreeBSD. My biggest complaint about the Linux kernel is the networking stack. It seems to be Alan Cox's playground. Now, I've got a lot of respect for Alan, but using the Linux kernel as his playground results in a much less stable operating system. I think the last time that happened with FreeBSD was the 3.x series. I recall there were some network problems introduced there when some things in the networking stack was reworked a bit, but Alan has a thing for ripping the thing out and rebuilding it over and over again (what's he on, this third one). In any case FreeBSD is based on BSD, and is much more stable. Granted stable is a relative thing, but I've seen much less problems with FreeBSD under heavy usage then I have with Linux at different points in it's cycle. Duraid is correct about the different flavors of Linux, but BSD has their own (NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDI). On the other hand, things are a lot less different between the BSD's then they are between the various Linux distributions. As always, for any application, get a firm understanding of your appplications requirements, and examine what FreeBSD or a flavor of Linux has to offer. Think about what you will do with it, what you will do a year from now, five years from now. Did I mention how easy it is to upgrade FreeBSD? I used to be a Linux freak. My old slackware distributions blew Windows 3.11 out of the water. More recently I saw FreeBSD, I'm not going back. -- Groove On Dude Michael Conlen Obfuscated Networking meconlen@obfuscated.net > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Duraid > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:53 PM > To: Tony Storm; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD > > > go with freebsd .. when you ask questions you only get one answer.. > linux is not like that .. when you ask a linux question everybody goes > ...oh well! it depends... not because they don't want to help but this > is the truth ... linux comes with different flavors and gives different > solutions to different problems... and this is very confusing to a > newbie... even if would like to choose linux don't go with redhat > because you won't understand why all the fuss around linux.. it's not > REALLY stable and not easy to use and with ton's of bugs.. why not use > windows then?.. go with slackware (slackware.com). > > Duraid > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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