Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:48:17 -0400 (EDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: re: FreeBSD - Linux Message-ID: <199610102348.TAA19108@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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[moved to -chat from -questions] In Email, wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > > Why not? Your comment makes me curious. All I'm saying is what I'm > seeing, on my machine, right in front of me. I'm glad you took the > time to respond, but I'm more than just a little curious as to why > you wondered "if this statement is worth responding to". I thought > this was the place to ask and comment, hoping to get some suggestions > for what may be at fault here. Maybe not. This is the place to ask questions and to get comments, however, if I recall your original message, it was not formulated in a manner that tried to elicit a response. I'm am not the person you were replying to, but I think that is what he was referring to when he said that "this statement [may not be] worth responding to". > Really? Not here. On exiting 'X' its nuts. Or is that the norm? No, of course not. Also be aware that your problem with ppp isn't the norm, either (actually, I think it's the first time of heard that problem). fvwm95 was written for Linux, and it's possible there are small porting snafoos that no one has noticed. > >Regarding minicom, I don't know and don't use it. > > Well, thats one I need, and depend on. The reason is quite simple. It Then either fix it to run better on FreeBSD, or continue to use Linux. No one will complain if you run Linux because a certain critical app (for you) is better-fitted for Linux. Just as no one complains when someone decides to use Win95 because they simply need some app that runs under Win95 and only under Win95 (and Win95 is many times more offensive than Linux!). > Simple as that. Yes, as simple as that. > The real truth is, Linux is good; very good. And you're not as far > ahead as you think you are. Not by a long shot. >From your perspective, for your specific needs. Just as for some people FreeBSD is a far better choice than Linux, it's possible that Linux is a far better choice than FreeBSD for you. I (and probably many others) are happy for you that you have found an OS which does the job you demand of it and is freely source-distributed. More power to you --- go use it. > I'll say it again. All I said was that these applications that work > flawlessly on Linux, work poorly or not at all, on FreeBSD. Period. Right, and let's keep it at that. I think the reason some people responded to your original message was what you seemed to write between the lines. What came across, to some people at least, was a message that `Linux is far ahead of FreeBSD'. Incidentally this is the very same message that can be read into the quote before this one. -- -- tIM...HOEk The opinions expressed above are mine, and if my employer shares them, that's his hard luck.
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