23 May
1998
23 May
'98
12:21 a.m.
Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
And if you like Linux, the real winner will be FreeBSD
which does
what Linux does, only better. It has compatibility modes that let you
run Linux, and SCO binaries and actually is easy to set up compared
to many of the Linux varients.
And there's only ONE distribution. And the thing is built as a SYSTEM
to run as a system.
To build the whole thing from source just type make world in /usr/src.
To install over the internet -- just boot the single install floppy
and go.
I've got both. FreeBSD supports at best a quarter of the hardware
that Linux does -- in large part because it _is_ just the one
distribution with the one design team, instead of a planetwide
anarchist cooperative. Linux runs SCO binaries just fine as well,
the iBCS module was migrated to FreeBSD from Linux.
This is _not_ the forum for that particular (and peculiar) religious
war. I've been a Unix junkie since I first tried Xenix on a TRS-80
Model 16 shortly before it officially shipped to the RSCC where I
did tech support. Part of the problem I have with the so-called
fight between the government and Microsoft is that while I prefer to
avoid MS when I can, I usually can -- the government on the other hand
I can never avoid whether I desire or not since they have lots of guns
and lately a free hand in using them -- but that's also a discussion
for a different mailing list (check out <http://www.lrt.org> for
subscription info).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_