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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.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: 28 May 1994 11:52:53 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 43 Sender: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu Message-ID: <2s7pcl$f1a@acmex.gatech.edu> References: <Cq6u20.KFw@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CqH2z7.29E@dit.upm.es> <2s5pok$gr8@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: acmex.gatech.edu dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes: >GARCIA VALDEARENAS (cdt94001@oasis.dit.upm.es) wrote: >: Linux is faster than FreeBSD, but has a very poor network support. If you are not Incorrect. Linux has good and rapidly improving network support. This issue of networking quality is becoming more and more obsolete with each passing day. My big problem with Linux's networking now is that the NFS client doesn't do caching. Everything else works fine; it's fast and stable and it interoperates with all the other TCP/IP implementations I've tried it with (*BSD, of course, Waterloo, NCSA, etc.). >: going to be connected to a network Linux is better. Linux supports graphics whithout >: 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 >: programs for Linux) . >BAH! If you want to run shitty dos then use dos. All this crap about >emulating dos/windows in UNIX sickens me. Use it the way it should be >used, not to run fucking emulators. What is "the way it should be used?" I use Linux as a multitasking, networked, stable, crash-proof operating system. I occasionally want to run a DOS program, but booting into DOS would annoy some of the people who depend upon NFS service from my machine. A DOS emulator makes perfect sense for that, and many similar situations. By the way, the Linux DOS emulator *does* use DOS. Does that satisfy you? > Just what I want to do, buy $$$ programs for a free operating system. It seems strange to me that someone would want to limit his options. I like LaTeX/xdvi for document composition, but I also tried out the freely available SCO WP5.1 demo with the iBCS emulator. There are people who are willing to pay for quality software, believe it or not, and they use Linux not because it's free but because it's good. -- _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*'