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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!nntpfeed.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!sable.ox.ac.uk!mbeattie From: mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 5 Feb 1997 10:58:45 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156570 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82657 comp.os.linux.setup:95810 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2312 In article <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net>, >Bennett Todd <bet@nospam.interactive.net> wrote: >> >One reason that we have the Linux emulator (and EXT2FS) is to ease the >> >upgrade to FreeBSD from Linux. > >> I've never heard of anybody going that way. Why would they want to? > >FreeBSD is a lot more stable and reliable than Linux. Since you back this up with no data, it would be more accurate and less inflammatory to prefix that with "Because they think that...". >I've been evaluating Red Hat 4.0, so I could run Linux programs on my >FreeBSD box, but it's been flakey as hell (they REALLY broke the SCSI >subsystem on the install disk) and I think I'll just use the Linux >emulator. RedHat 4.0 was the first major distribution to move to a "single boot disk for all hardware" with dynamically loaded kernel modules even for hardware required at boot-time (e.g. for the root filesystem). For the huge range of Intel hardware available, this is a very nice feature. Unfortunately, some of the SCSI device drivers don't behave well enough when compiled as modules and that caused problems. RedHat came out with special boot disks for people whose root filesystems were on those affected SCSI controllers. They are available in the updates/images/i386 directory of any redhat-4.0 mirror. Now that RedHat 4.1 is out, I would hope that most of those problems are ironed out. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> Oxford University Computing Services "Widget. It's got a widget. A lovely widget. A widget it has got." --Jack Dee