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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Message-ID: <CqL30C.8v5@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 21:43:24 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es>
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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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).
>going to be connected to a network Linux is better. Linux supports graphics whithout
Also, Linux's floating-point support is better.
>X. Linux can execute many MS-DOS programs using a MS-DOS emulator (exceptions are
>all MS-Windows programs). Linux can execute all SCO binaries (so you can buy many
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)
>programs for Linux) .
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...)
>Support for MS-Windows programs under Linux and FreeBSD is under development.
>Currently only very few programs can run under MS-Windows emulator ("wine").
WINE isn't even ALPHA...and it has relatively little to do with this
discussion...
>The most popular distribution of Linux is Slackware. It is very easy to install.
Yes, the install is very nice.
>The last version of XFree86 is XFree 3.0 included in X11R6 but is not very popular.
>XFree86 2.1.1 is more suitable for people not involved in X development.
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Benjamin Z. Goldsteen