Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:02:40 -0500 From: "Travis Leuthauser" <travis-lists@winconx.com> To: "stop here. start everywhere." <feedback@phpStop.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <002101c03d0a$abe14b50$97c8723f@winconx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010212333001.18742-100000@server.wes.mee.com> <39F3609E.83C02B3E@bellatlantic.net> <39F38893.6A8204A@bellatlantic.net> <39F3902A.6846BB49@phpStop.com>
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I haven't used Linux for quite a while, I am however an avid supporter of FreeBSD. It is true that you can update your sources and rebuild everything in one shot. That may seem kinda risky, but I run several FreeBSD servers and have never had a problem remotely rebuilding/installing world without even dropping to single user mode. The upgrade process was very well planned, and in my experience, the chance of something major going wrong is no greater than trying to update one piece at a time. At least going all at once, you can be fairly certain that anything maintained on the FreeBSD cvs repository will work with the rest of your system. Travis Leuthauser Network Administrator WinConX Online, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "stop here. start everywhere." <feedback@phpStop.com> To: "Sergey Babkin" <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: "Frederik Meerwaldt" <frederik@freddym.org>; <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 8:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux > Hi all again, > > Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to > upgrade the whole system in one shot? > > What if something breaks down after you've recompiled? Your system would > be dead. In Linux, on the contrary, there's no such feature and you'll > need to take the server anyways to upgrade it, which seems as a good way > of doing things. In the meantime, another backup server can take its > position. I guess in this fashion, Linux is better than FreeBSD... or > did I miss something here? > > /John > > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > By the way, speaking of that, things in FreeBSD tend to be more > > synchronous with docs than in Linux. Also FreeBSD has much better > > backwards compatibility (though alas still not as good as commercial > > systems). In Linux the applications tend to break and require > > recompilation when the kernel is upgraded to the next > > second-digit version. > > > > -SB > > -- > Regards, > > phpStop.com http://www.phpstop.com/ > stop here. start everywhere. mailto:info@phpstop.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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