From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 0: 9:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11E537B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.246.249.217] (helo=daydream) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 13oKge-0003qK-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:09:25 -0400 Received: from shannon by daydream with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13nxne-0000XG-00; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 02:43:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 02:43:06 -0400 From: Shannon Hendrix To: Sergey Babkin Cc: Frederik Meerwaldt , "phpStop.com" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <20001024024305.A1466@widomaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: Sergey Babkin , Frederik Meerwaldt , "phpStop.com" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <39F3609E.83C02B3E@bellatlantic.net> <39F38893.6A8204A@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39F38893.6A8204A@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:38:43PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:38:43PM -0400, 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. Mostly, that is only for system utilities. Few applications care about the kernel, and I run plenty of old applications with just a compatbility library installed, just like I do on FreeBSD. I dislike the package systems like rpm and debian when they keep me from running different versions of a library unless I force it. Some dependencies just don't make any sense. The FreeBSD situation is better, but no UNIX is exactly library heaven once you get away from the basics (C, kernel, POSIX). Graphics and sound are still alphabet soup. Hopefully that will settle down in time. -- "Those who trade liberty for security will have neither -- (??)" shannon @ w i d o m a k e r . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message