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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:21:00 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3339690C.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bc39ca$4cb6d9c0$232c3d9b@muna019> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) To: Andreas Hinterleitner <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37772 Andreas Hinterleitner wrote: > - stderr and stdout seems to be hard wired with ttyv0; this causes strange > effects on the screen when e.g. a login on ttyv1 is done That's bizarre, are you sure about this? I've never ever seen any symptoms remotely like this. Also, if you're going to test FreeBSD, at least use a more recent version - 2.1.5 is ancient by modern OS standards. :) I would recommend picking up 2.2.1 from ftp.freebsd.org and trying again. > - midnight commander acts strange on some keystrokes and mouse movements > (CTRL+O doesn't work at all: once I disabled the panels, I cannot bring > them back!) Hmmm. I've seen MC running just fine on a 2.1.7 machine, I can't say I've seen it tested in any earlier releases though. > - color X-terminals (e.g. rxvt) don't use color by default (still don't > know how to change this) setenv TERM xterm-color > - the APM on my Compaq LTE Elite doesn't work correctly, even with apm > driver present (return from standby: screen is still black); APM was fairly broken in 2.1.5 - you really should jump to the 2.2 branch. > - because of the absence of a nice window manager in the FreeBSD version fvwm1, fvwm2 and fvwm95 are all included with FreeBSD 2.2.1 :-) > - my DEL key doesn't act as normal but like the BACKSPACE key (DEL should > delete the character below the actual cursor position and work to the > right, not to the left!) Well, which is to say what exactly? What actuall ASCII code are they emitting? -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.