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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!popeye.cs.iastate.edu!mhartong From: Mark Hartong <mhartong@cs.iastate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Good Job Team FREEBSD Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 22:28:48 -0600 Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 67 Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951223215325.406A-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> References: <199512230326.WAA07899@sibelius.helios.nd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: popeye.cs.iastate.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199512230326.WAA07899@sibelius.helios.nd.edu> John, I am running a 48DX/66 Clone, using a Cyrix 486 SLC Chip with AMI Bios, 8 MB Ram, 128k secondary cache, a Mitsummi Double Speed CD ROM, a Colorado 120MB Tape Back up, a Conner 420 MB Hard Drive, a NE 2000 Ethernet Clone Card, a Zomm 14.4 Fax Modemwith a 14 inch monitor. The entire system is dedicated to Unix, with X Windows running ctwm- I used the default settings on the 2.1 installation disk to get up and running, and then did a custom kernel. Which is better? Each has it's advantages and disadvantages. It depends on what you are looking for. Linux DOES have a wider user base, so you might be more likely to run across someone who is using Linux. However remeber that a wider user base doesn't necessarily mean "better". Just look at Micro$oft. As a professional software engineer, I feel more comfortable with the FreeBSD core team approach. I think that they have a better handle on configuration control. For me, this is extremely valuable, I have other things that I want to do than to troubleshoot "why XYZ doesn't work" when a revison t to XYZ comes out. (Not that I don't like hacking mind you.... but the day to day existance of a grad student kind of puts a BIG crimp on fun things :)) WRT to the issue of documentation, I have managed VERY well with the BSD4.4 reference manuals (available from O'Reily), a copy of Essential Systems Administration (also from O'Reily), DNS and Bind (also from O'Reily), TCP/IP Network Administration (O'Reily Again), and Sendmail (O'Reily again). Those, coupled with a little common sense and the documenation that the FreeBSD team has put together, are more than adequate. I have also run Linux. It is a good system, but IMHO not quite up to the BSD Unix. When you think about it, CSRG at Berkley has been working on Unix for over 15 years now... 15 years is a lot of " accumulated knowledge" that shows in some of the details. Hope this helps... I've got to get back to grading papers Regds Mark to On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, john tran wrote: > > Mark, if you do not mind, can you please tell me your hardware configuration? > I am deciding between linux and bsd. I have installed both -- but unsure > which is better. > EMAIL John.Tran@ND.EDU > URL http://www.nd.edu/~jtran/ > **************************************************************************** Mark Hartong see also HARTONG@netins.net mhartong@cs.iastate.edu hartongm@detrick.disa.mil http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~hartong/homepage.html hartongm@dsainc.com Old Engineer, Older Comp Sci Grad Student- " Let me get this right........ You're giving up your job, seniority, and pension to go do what???????? Are you out of your mind?" ****************************************************************************