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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!prism!prism!not-for-mail From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 29 May 1994 19:17:20 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 52 Sender: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu Message-ID: <2sb7q0$86l@acmez.gatech.edu> References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <CqL30C.8v5@rex.uokhsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: acmez.gatech.edu ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes: >cdt94001@oasis.dit.upm.es (GARCIA VALDEARENAS) writes: >>Linux is faster than FreeBSD, but has a very poor network support. If you are not > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >If you are going to make statements like that, you ought to provide >some support (if nothing else, at least mention the versions and the >hardware involved). Coming in late, are you? Welcome. >Also, Linux's floating-point support is better. Well, that can be remedied if the *BSD people devote a little time to porting Bill Metzenthan's FPU emulator -- and they have plenty of spare time, right? >The MS-DOS emulator is officially classified as ALPHA and it is a bit >slow. Hopefully, this situation will improve (I hear it is moving >towards BETA status but I get the impression that the original author >isn't terribly interested in it anymore) Well, the *original* author of the crashes-on-dir/p dosemu disappeared from the net, and the second author (me) got sick and tired of it. When it hit me that I absolutely *never* ran any DOS programs and only kept my DOS partition around for developing dosemu, I quit. The new team is doing a fine job developing it and I hope they will for a long time to come. I'm sure they wouldn't mind some enterprising *BSD user to join up and help start a port, either (hint, hint). >Isn't COFF/ELF/SCO support classified as ALPHA, too? "all SCO >binaries" also sounds a bit unqualified. It certainly isn't going to >to run SCO binaries that do things they shouldn't... As I understand >it, you still need to copy some files from a real SCO box to get some >things working (I wonder what the legalities of this are...) Well, the SCO binaries can do all kinds of things they shouldn't, but more than likely the iBCS emulator, when done, will handle just as many naughty things as SCO does. The emulator runs WP5.1 for X11 just fine, as well as Informix and Oracle. It won't handle dynamically-linked SCO programs yet, but there are very few of those. Actually, it'll handle them, but you'll need the SCO shared libraries (the files you mention) because the emulation library hasn't been built yet. -- _g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_ W@@@W__ |-\ ^ | disclaimer: <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W `*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'