Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:30:39 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au> Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) Message-ID: <335293EF.535B@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970414221200.367B-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au>
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Adrian Chadd wrote: > > God I love a good religious battle, don't you? > > I agree with Jordan - this is getting quite out of hand. > I agree, and I won't go into the Linux vs. FreeBSD controversy either. I do have (I hope) some constructive suggestions, after having a crack on a Linux box: 1) I like our way of rebuilding the kernel, but perhaps "we" (actually a good programmer, not me) could add a program or script that would ask the options for the desired kernel and will help build the configuration file. Nothing really fancy is required, maybe even a PERL script should be enough. 2) I have found that in Linux the administrator has greater control over the disks. There are defragmentation tools (which are not really required in UNIX of course), and there's also a semi-graphical fdisk utility. 3) There is some more information regarding sharing swap space with other OSs..haven't tried that on FreeBSD. 4) I agree that stability is of primary importance, but additional features clearly labelled in BETA state would be nice. IPX routing, for example, is said to be tested only on 2.1.x boxes but it was not included until 2.2. The SCO emulation wasn't upgraded until version 2.2, not to mention the ports tree. It all gave the impression that 2.1.x wasn't important at all. Pedro. > > -- > Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... > <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the > | ugly..)
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