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| Sean Harding | Mar 20, 1998 12:14 am | |
| Sean Harding | Mar 20, 1998 12:17 am | |
| Anton Angelo | Mar 20, 1998 1:11 am | |
| Sue Blake | Mar 20, 1998 1:48 am | |
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| Sue Blake | Mar 20, 1998 2:56 pm | |
| Peter Schwenk | Mar 20, 1998 9:07 pm | |
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| tony cappellini | Mar 20, 1998 9:55 pm | |
| allen campbell | Mar 21, 1998 12:30 pm |
| Subject: | Linux vs. FreeBSD [was: Re: Newbies list [was: partition spanning multiple drives]] | |
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| From: | Peter Schwenk (schw...@voicenet.com) | |
| Date: | Mar 20, 1998 9:20:29 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-newbies | |
Howdy,
I can't speak directly to your experiences because I've used Linux and FreeBSD as a home O/S, and I shut my computer down frequently.
I've settled on FreeBSD because, like you said, it has a more "professional" feel to it. I'm a little more nervous about the mob-development model that Linux uses. I do a lot of lurking in the Linux and FreeBSD mailing lists, and I get the feeling that the FreeBSD is more closely-knit. I don't mind the slower pace. I don't have exotic hardware at home, so I'm served quite nicely by FreeBSD.
Bottom line is I'm constantly amazed by the free software movement in general and the quality software that is produced. At this point, I couldn't live without the efforts of these geniuses.
Anton Angelo wrote:
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I want to start a bit of a religious discussion comparing FreeBSD to Linux (specifically slackware).
My experience is limited, but I have run a slackware box for a couple of years, and have started tinkering with FreeBSD in the last 6 months. I like the prefessional "feel" of FreeBSD, but the box does fall over for no reason that I. with only half a clue or less, cannot understand. My linux box however stood up for 150 days on a 386 with 4Meg RAM handling loadsaemail and even ran tin. ( a feat in itself in 4Meg :)
It collapsed when the uptime figure got too large (well, that was the only reason I could work out...)
So it seems to me that Slackware was "more stable" than FreeBSD.
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Nonetheless I'm moving my personal unix boxen to FreeBSD (apart from the 386 which I was thinking about seeing if I could get the source for minix for for a laugh) because its far easier to maintain - you have to love that ports collection.
Speaking of which - can anyone recommend a free IMAP4 server for FreeBSD? Also is Qmail in the ports collection, I'm not smart enough to admin sendmail and I refuse to learn M4 just to build a config file!
aa
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