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From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: 30 May 1994 02:40:37 -0500
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <CqL30C.8v5@rex.uokhsc.edu>,
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen <benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu> wrote:
>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).
Well, I am one of the people who went thru Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
I eventually switched to FreeBSD from Linux becasue of some network problems
of Linux:
1) Frequent packet loss errors (ping).
2) Most annoyingly, once left idle, for example for half a day,
Linux box disconnects itself from outside and would not accept
rlogin, telnet, mail, ...etc. sessions from other nodes until
I break the idleness on the console.
My network card is NE2000 clone, and I have seen other people complaining
the same problems (and they have other kinds of network cards).
It seems to me that no one got the answer. The linux box was the most
recent one (I don't remember, but I tried from 0.99.xx - 1.1.xx, but
no version resolved the above problem - in fact, whenever I upgraded
Linux, I hoped that the above be fixed, but it never, and I finally
gave up).
I tried FreeBSD and NetBSD, but they did not have those problems.
The main reason why I chose FreeBSD was that it has 'add_pkg' and 'delete_pkg'
features. I can compile sources by myself, but the problem is that
after I install it, if I don't like it, deleting the installed programs
is not a simple job ( I have to track all the program names and library
files ). I like this feature very much and in fact, I prefer
it to the user-too-much-friendly Linux install procedure.
>>going to be connected to a network Linux is better. Linux supports graphics whithout
>
>Also, Linux's floating-point support is better.
Yes, this is what FreeBSD folks say. According to them, it will be fixed
in the next FreeBSD release.