Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:32:25 +0100 From: Norbert Meißner <norbert.meissner@str.daimler-benz.com> To: Per Beckman <pelle@moonman.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SV: FreeBSD or Linux? Message-ID: <3505A358.4DA9@str.daimler-benz.com> References: <01bd4b90$0db9dbe0$bc94c6c3@beckman>
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Per Beckman wrote: > > But there is more software avalible for linux right? > (like Quake2 for example, my fav. game) > and your drinking brandy out of the skulls of your foes ;-) > BTW, do you live in Germany? > (I live in Sweden, not very far from you then :) oh, yes, of course, only a few centimeters on my worldmap ;-) i think its cold there, even in summer. several years ago i was in scotland for vacation. we (my wife and me) are wearing all day pullovers and rainsuits and at home they are dieing in the heat! so i decided never to go again to the north, even in summer. you're right, there's more software availaible for linux, but does all work together? bsd is a rock stable system, it's fast (ok, not the fs because it's working in sync) and you can put a HUGE load on it. do you povray? it's a freeware raytracer, a real system hog. two weeks ago i've started 42 processes of it under x and fvwm. when it was running i was able to switch screens, use my shell (to play nethack :-)) without any waiting for the system. in another case i used it for a unix-course (i'm a teacher after daywork) and put 20 users on one P166 with 64megs ram. needless to say that nobody noticed some delay. do this with linux and you will see.... > Add-on to my prevoius letter > -------------------------------------- > > If I where to download freeBSD from, say freebsd.org, > which are the files i need? I looked around a bit, and > then i realized (hrm...) that there are about a thousand > files you need to download... Arenīt there any "complete" > packages, which contains all I need (probably > they would be huge in size, but one can always hope > father doesnīt get a system error when he seeīs the > phone bill :) > go to /pub/freebsd/2.2.5-release and grab all excluding commerce, des and xperimnt. commerce are some commercial demos, des isn't permitted to use outside of the us and xperimnt is some experimental stuff (which i never installed!). the biggest piece to download are the packages, exclude them for the first time (your father won't panic at the phone bill!) but load them down over the next time. they'll be worth it. be sure to download the handbook and print it out!!! there is much useful stuff inside! when you are more familiar with the system you can build your own customized kernel and install all of the packages you like. > Is it possible to use "real" UNIX apps on freeBSD? > I guess, since freeBSD is built on the BSD 4 standard that > it would be possible. or maybe itīs just stupid me...) > Also, does freeBSD have support for odd computer > thingies, such as 3Dfx-cards? yes, you execute binaries for sco-unix and some other ixes i don't know at this moment. for special graphic cards you are restricted to the X386-distribution in the file-tree i mentioned above. is this for you a crucial? i think not, imho the primary use of unix is to develop software and do your work with minimal effort. hope to helped you norbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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