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From: othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Message-ID: <yX2Lkc3w165w@oasys.pc.my>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 10:09:09 +800
References: <CnH9JG.3Ap@hippo.ru.ac.za>
Organization: Telekom Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
> >As I see it the major difference (from a user impact perspective) is that
> >FreeBSD has better network code and Linux has shared libraries. Give FreeBSD
> >shared libraries and I would probably pick it over Linux...
>
> (c.o.3.m has seen a lot of discussions ?flamage? re shlibs, so at the
> risk of making myself a lightning rod:)
>
> Both *BSD in their -current flavour have Sun-style shared libraries
> (written by Paul Kranenburg), and these shlibs are available in
> FreeBSD-1.1BETA.
>
Warning! Shared libs will slow down your machine and save only little of
your overall disk space(only 10%), because data is much more than code.
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