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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Switching From Linux to FreeBSD Date: 30 Jan 1995 22:56:43 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 50 Message-ID: <3gjqrb$lp4@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3fvdhg$34i@myrddin.imat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael_Nelson) writes: [...snip...] >So, I am considering the switch to FreeBSD. [...snip...] >But I'd like to know.... is there anyone else here who's made the switch >from Linux to FreeBSD, and if so, are you glad you did? Yep. I ran Linux for 6 months with a UUCP connection. When time came to go full IP, I was forced to change. Linux networking code was the bain of my existence for months, until I found the words "Packet fragmentation not supported yet" in my syslog. *screams* So I changed to 386bsd and never went back. I'm now running FreeBSD-2.0 and loving every moment of it. Never had a problem (well, none that weren't self inflicted *smirk*). >How 'bout the availability of utilities and programs for FreeBSD? I'm >familiar with the archive sites for Linux stuff, but don't really know >where the major FreeBSD archives are, other than FreeBSD.cdrom.com. I >didn't see much there except the FreeBSD source and OS itself. Does the >FreeBSD community have archive sites on the order of Linux's >sunsite.unc.edu site? There's a ports and packages directory on ftp.freebsd.org (which _is_ really freebsd.cdrom.com in disguse, I think). The CDROM also has all of these ports and packages. What little I couldn't find on CDROM I ftp'd from the standard archives and ported in a matter of minutes - most compiled with simple flag changes in the Makefile to say "BSD" :) >I love learning new things and fiddling with UNIX... do you think >switching to FreeBSD would be a good move for me in light of the above >discussion? I think so. I personally perceive FreeBSD are the more mature OS, and Linux as more a (b)leading edge. I know there are stable kernels, but we're talking about my personal perception here :-) Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |