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From: skyhook@iac.net (Chris Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 4 Apr 1994 17:08:58 -0400
Organization: CLOG - Cincinnati Linux Operators Group
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: > Is there MS-DOG Emulation? ( until I see quicken for Linux, I need DOS apps)
: > Will WABI/WINE work there? (I'd love to see Word for Windows under X)
: > is there iBCS2 support? (In ALPHA for Linux, run SCO binaries)
: How good are all these? I tried the MSDOS emulation before but it was so full
: of bugs and limited that I'd rather reboot.
DOSEmu is great. What do you want it to do? Win3.1? No. Wordperfect 6 for
DOS yes. I use it all the time for Quicken, WordPerfect, and an
assortment of DOS shareware like Loan Amortizers.
If you used an old version of DOSEMU then yes, it was pretty bad. (I
never managed to get it compiled back then) but the new DosEMU0.50pl1 is
really stable. It even has DPMI support (not that I use it.)
: The last time I studied Linux networking code, it was adapted Net/2
: code with hacks to make it work for Linux. Otherwise how could they get those
: networking utilities up so quickly.
The Networking Code in Linux is not as stable as NetBSD. I say that only
on hearsay, I have never had a Single problem with it.
: Don't be fooled by features that you do not need. Keep it slim and bug free.
: Linux is ONLY for X86, whereas BSD is for ALL. If you want a toy to play with,
: go for Linux, but if you want to go on to greater things, try BSD.
But we're not talking for everything else. That argument is thrown up
every time a BSD addict gets into a corner. "Yeah, but I can run Vic20BSD
and NewtonBSD and HP48SXBSD and SlideRuleBSD" The argument is a little
thin. So BSD is availible on 11 platforms. I dont OWN 11 platforms and
could care less if it runs on an Amiga. And based on Commodore's recent
liquidation, nobody else does either. There is supposedly an Amiga port
of Linux, but I know nothing about it other than it's existence. the
point is though, WHO CARES? I happen to own an x86. If I owned a Mac I
would run MacBSD instead of A/UX, that's true. but I dont own, and I wont
run. Its kind of like if I owned a Ferrari and you owned a jeep and you
argued that my ferrari is not a real car because it cant go Off-Road,
like your jeep which can 'run anywhere'
I am not now, nor have I ever, tried to convince anyone to switch to
Linux. All I have done is refute inane claims by BSDAddicts that thier
system is better. I have heard everything from 'It runs on 3483 different
platforms, with See-n-SayBSD in ALPHA' to 'you cant recompile the entire
source tree of Linux at once' (which still boggles my mind). So Far I
have not heard a SINGLE good reason offered by a BSDAddict as to why BSD is
better.
: SABAH is HEAVEN. Beautiful islands, mountains and jungles are next to
5 star : hotels. There are no natural and very few man-made disasters,
: BUT for how long will it last?
: Disclaimer: I only speak for myself
I Assume that was a .sigfile and not anything having to do with the real
world. It WAS butted up against the text quoted above like it was a
continuation of the paragraph.
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Chris Thompson | Linux/XF86/Ztalk/Emacs/Mosaic/Rush/Marillion/Linux
skyhook@skynet.iac.net | 'We will either find a way, or make one.'-Hannibal
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