From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 22 18:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw1.netvision.net.il (mailgw1.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1064937B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phpStop.com (ras13-18.hfa.netvision.net.il [62.0.124.20]) by mailgw1.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA15571; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:12:05 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <39F3902A.6846BB49@phpStop.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:11:06 +0200 From: "stop here. start everywhere." Organization: phpStop.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Babkin Cc: Frederik Meerwaldt , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux References: <39F3609E.83C02B3E@bellatlantic.net> <39F38893.6A8204A@bellatlantic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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