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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
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References: <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s618a$34t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2s86fj$cn4@acmex.gatech.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 22:49:24 GMT
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In article <2s86fj$cn4@acmex.gatech.edu> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) writes:
>nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>
>>In article <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es>,
>>GARCIA VALDEARENAS <cdt94001@oasis.dit.upm.es> wrote:
>>> Linux is faster than FreeBSD, but has a very poor network support. If
>
>>Where do you get your numbers? Have you benchmarked Linux and FreeBSD
>>on the same hardware?
>
>meta-data updates (I turned that option for Linux on and the slowdown is
** I have never lost a file system on any of my FreeBSD systems... **
>similar), the shared libraries, whilc more conceptually "cleaner", were
>slower than Linux's (or, at least, executable loading seemed slower), and
Does Linux have Dynamic Shared Libraries?
Because we do ....
>the base system was very spare (= didn't include perl, or much of any non-
>BSD utility). ^^^^
If you look just a tiny bit at any freebsd ftp site you will
definitely fine ported packages for sound, lang, etc...
For instance for the ported languages, freebsd.cdrom.com,
the official home of FreeBSD show:
257 "/.1/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/lang" is current directory.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
CVS
bwbasic
Makefile
gcc1
perl
sather
schemetoc
scm
sml
tcl
tclX
xlispstat
franz
logo
itcl
>
>Another problem was that the sound driver was apparently an old version and
>produced poor results when used with GMOD on our Gravis Ultrasounds.
>
Hmmm...
Well if you get an old kernel you are liable to get poor results.
GMOD works fine over here...
We do have the latest Linux sound driver working and
additionally I modified the sound driver so it can support
bi-directional dma operations for the GUS.
The added functionality will be rolled back into the linux sound driver
and I heard reports that my mods do work under linux.
Also, Jim Lowe (for FreeBSD) modified the sound driver to support VAT, Van
Jacobsen's visual audio tool. What is vat? well it is currently being
used in the internet for voice conferencing, radio broadcast, or just
to chat with someone on the internet.
The *sources* for vat are not available!
vat also uses IP Multicasting not sure if IP multicasting is available
for Linux.
>A point I hesitate to bring up is that FreeBSD didn't seem to work with Linux's
>NFS server. Knowing that no *BSD will admit that it got things wrong, and not
>knowing that Linux's NFS server got it right, all I'll say is that Solaris,
>an MS-DOS client, and Chameleon NFS/32 for NT all worked perfectly with it, as
>did Linux's client.
>
How odd, that Sun OS NFS seems to work with FreeBSD...
Amancio
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