Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:36:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: nice comments about FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009191732150.22042-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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Hi all, I was digging around getting ready to install FreeBSD on our "it'll be there RSN" new astronomical image processing computer. Many, if not most, astronomers use the IRAF software (http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html) to do their image processing. There are FBSD builds available (which is nice). In their README file you find the following comments (whether they are absolutely correct or not is up to you, they're certainly complimentary): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ o FreeBSD [dist: fbsd arch: freebsd] Install and use the freebsd binaries. You might be able to run the linux binaries in compatibility mode (FreeBSD can run some Linux binaries), but currently FreeBSD does not support ELF. FreeBSD is arguably the most solid, workstation class PC operating system currently available. Very popular for servers. May be a better multiprocess system than Linux but Linux may be a better single user system. More stable than Linux and avoids the similar-but-different multiple distributions problem which plagues Linux, but Linux is more popular and supports a wider range of hardware and add-on software (although the difference is getting pretty small). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pretty nice. Now if the darn machine will just get here! Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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