Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 19:30:38 -0400 (EDT) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux Message-ID: <XFMail.961009193155.wb2oyc@cyberenet.net> In-Reply-To: <199610090311.UAA29231@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Ahem! i found the same thing to be true about driving on the "wrong" side of the street when i was in england. 3 weeks to doing solved that problem. perhaps you know how to do all these things in Linux and are not happy having to relearn Unix. > > In case you didn't know it, Linux IS Unix! :) You didn't read, > or if you did, you surely didn't understand what I said. Why > should these app's that are the same be any different, functionally > when running on FreeBSD, when they work fine on Linux! Thats all > I said. > fvwm, memory utilization, ppp, console, (dont use minicom) all work under FreeBSD. > > Not really! They don't work here. Certainly not properly! > Especially minicom. I can't get user mode ppp to dial properly > and have to use term mode to setup a connection. Minicom does not > work in an RXVT session, and xminicom doesn't work at all. Fvwm95 > will not find all the icons (which are useful to me due to the > medical problems I deal with). > if you just want a desktop box, use whatever you want. if you want the most robust, cost effective, networking computer use FreeBSD. > > No, I'm disabled, and I work from home. What I need, is a real > operating system, that is dependable, fast, and as bullet proof > as I can find. Thats what made me give up on DOS/Windows in the > first place, and started me into trying first OS/2, then Linux, > NT and now FreeBSD. Both Linux and FreeBSD are far superior to > anything yet seen from Redmond, in my estimation, which is why I > don't use that stuff. But, there are things that I NEED to work, > and work well every time. What I'm finding is that things I need > and depend on when running Linux, don't work properly on FreeBSD. > Period. > > There is no difference in cost of FreeBSD versus Linux. They're > both "free". The difference I'm finding is that the stuff works > under Linux, and the very same stuff doesn't work properly, or at > all under FreeBSD. As for the robust networking, they're the same > in that regard, with the network code being so tightly coupled, or > is it, integrated with the kernel. In fact, I find that Linux > thruput is better (using PPP--on my FreeBSD I use 'user mode ppp') > using the very same hardware, down to the port itself. This is > the very same machine, in this case. Not a different box. > different needs, different solutions ps. what's the most heavily loaded linux web|ftp server you have heard of? can it do 115GB a day? 2.5MB/s all day and 1.3MB/s all night? and still not break a sweat ;) > > This kind of comment was precisely my point. Techno mumbo jumbo. > The same box running Linux would do the same thing if you care to > know the truth of the matter. But, so what? I'm talking about > things that work well under Linux, and poorly or not at all on > FreeBSD. I was disappointed, and surprised, to find that to be > the case to be quite honest with you. Plus, there's other nonsense > giving me fits with FreeBSD, like whenever I exit 'X' my shell does > not work! Does wild and crazy things UNTIL I hit Ctrl C a couple > of times! Never saw this kind of nonsense on Linux. Just pressing > 'Enter' may clear the screen, beep a few times, and print some > hieroglyphics. Not my idea of ROBUST, rock solid..... If thats > considered the norm I'd be surprised, and I guess I'm wasting my > time with this. I wanted to find out the difference between Linux > and FreeBSD. Maybe I have, and just don't know it yet. Then again, > maybe I'm just spoiled from having used Debian for so long now. > Paul
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