Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:46:57 -0800 (PST) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> Cc: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903251843100.31538-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <Marcel-1.46-0325173746-b49Zsav@duffner.surf24.de>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Rainer M Duffner wrote: > On Thu 25 Mar, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > > Feature for feature, is there a big difference in the storage requirements > > of Linux and FreeBSD? That is, would a FreeBSD installation (say 2.2.8) > > take any more or less space than a comparably configured Linux installation? > I doubt it very much. > Once you have the space to install a working and usable > (enjoyable !) system, it doesn't matter if one takes 20 MB more or less > than the other. > I'd guess that with Linux, you can have "better" (in the > sense of "more features") 'microinstallations', but this is only > relevant to a very small part of the userbase. > Definitely not -newbies ;-) You can get a fully functional networkable Linux machine with a web browser (Lynx) and FTP on 2 floppies :-) > > Thanks in advance for your insight. > I don't know for sure with the newer linux-kernels, but the old > 2.0.x-series could not handle files larger than 2 GB - this is a real > problem if you want to have an image of a DVD on you ext2-partition.... > FreeBSD has not such a low limit, IIRC Linux-Alpha doesn't have the 2 gig problem, and the 2.2 series does have patches available to go past the 2 gig limit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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