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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2207 comp.os.linux.misc:12350 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1994Apr4.001655.2457@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 00:16:55 GMT References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nf0fo$76u@sbus.entropic.com> <2nm6tb$m6u@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> Followup-To: don't bother unless you have something constructive to say Lines: 44 In article <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu>, cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2) says: +--------------- | In fact, if the instructions are given correctly, I can do it, but | in case of *BSD, most the instructions are either outdated, incorrect, or | not clear. +------------->8 You've not used SLS, I take it. :-| BSD's development follows a different model from Linux's; updates happen differently as a result, and synchronization differs. But each model has advantages, just as each has disadvantages; trying to claim that one is *ultimately* superior is nonsensical, because it depends entirely on the intended use. | >PS. I tested out Slackware a few weeks ago, and my reaction was "hey, | >this install looks like a DOS program". I'm not ashamed to admit that I | >was immensely pleased. | | In fact, I installed it a week ago freshly, and it went very | smooth. I think that the total installation procedure was much more | simpler than SUN workstation's case. +------------->8 Brought up Slackware 1.1.1 on the Twit last week; went quite nicely. Since I have a spare partition on the Twit I may try FreeBSD off the TA CDROM just to see how it compares. | But when I hooked it up with network, I felt that the network performance | was not really satisfactory. I felt it quite sluggish than even SUN3s. +------------->8 Net-0.2 isn't quite warp speed. I've got net-0.3.2 waiting for me to finish experimenting with "stock" Linux 1.0.5. (For the BSDers listening in: there have been at least two ports of the BSD IP stack to Linux, but both that I heard about were reported to be extremely jury-rigged and even less stable than the native code, due to differing models of memory management (that is, low-level differences not easily smoothed over). Don't be *too* judgemental about Linux networking: there is method to the apparent madness.) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org The FUDs at Microsoft are shouting "Kill The Wabi!"