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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:33:24 +0200
From:      Fabrizio Poggi <poggif@casaccia.enea.it>
To:        Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20000329113324.00928850@infos1.casaccia.enea.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000329080220.7123A-100000@omnix.net>
References:  <20000328113633.A28085@cons.org>

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At 08.22 29/03/00 +0000, you wrote:

>In 2000 it's getting worse, for me FreeBSD is not stable at all
>the future of FreeBSD is not so clear, version follow after version but
>I still have no support for my sound board, realplayer, oracle...
>The clients are telling me to install Linux instead of FreeBSD (for
>oracle)...
>I've just finished uprading the machines to 3.4-release and you are
>telling me that there is no future for 3.X...

Argh, I came freshly from Linux (one month). Sure that Linux is full of
conforts and now has also easy graphical installer, a sort of plug and
play, the organization of "canned" type of installation without problem for
build a 80% configured workstation, but believe me: 

***just opinions

is not more stable as FreeBSD; Mandrake GUI it freeze under some cases,
Slackware is not the same system since a year, shlightly behind respect the
others, Caldera it will become a bussines, RedHat is near to plug and play
and near to become a corporation (in Italy the cd pro version costs more as
Win2000 upgrade), Debian only grants the continuity with GNU ideas. I
cannot detect when a Linux is stable and sure, lot of confusion. I *know*
that FreeBSD run better on my old system (P200mmx, 64MbRam, Sis6326).
Better performances in GUI environment, clearest possibililty of
configuration. 
It's clear also for me that: I hope that some types of software (Oracle)
become soon in FreeBSD or (better) GNU gives us valid alternatives. Hope
that the manifacturers of hardware give more chances to FreeBSD. Someone
tell that the interest of the manifacturers in Linux is justified by a
bussines evolution of Linux system. This is a horror story huh? With
instinct I choose FreeBSD and for now I be content. In the future, if
FreeBSD it fall in the powder (hope no) maybe I'll try Debian with Hurd.
But for now FreeBSD it seems me better!

***end of opinions

Regards, Fabrizio




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