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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Message-ID: <hastyCqK4q5.F9r@netcom.com>
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Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 09:22:53 GMT
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In article <2s8mbn$e1o@acmex.gatech.edu> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) writes:
>hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>
>>In article <2s86fj$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
>
>Okay, before I have to fend off Amancio's hostile remarks, let me emphasize
>
>>>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...
>
>Yes, thank you. We did do that, but we were rather surprised that the "base"
>system didn't include many programs we had come to expect. Please read
>my posts more closely before mouthing off.
Whats the matter you don't like our OS distribution structure?
>>>produced poor results when used with GMOD on our Gravis Ultrasounds.
>
>>Well if you get an old kernel you are liable to get poor results.
>>GMOD works fine over here...
>
>It was FreeBSD 1.1 Gamma. At the time, there was no newer kernel except
>one culled from the -current tree. I thought you *BSD people were so
>uppity about not having to play patch-of-the-day like Linuxers supposedly
>do?
Well, if you consider upgrading to the latest sound driver in
the current tree, a patch then I guess it is so...
>You keep harping on this in a thousand newsgroups. Frankly, Amancio, if I
>want radio I will turn on my *radio*. I'm not interested in some bandwidth-
Yeah, but you can't talk to your radio :)
Well, vat can take anywhere between 9.6kbits/sec to 64kbits/sec
depending upon the data compression chosen.
>Last I heard it wasn't officially available for FreeBSD, either, and you were
Check your hearing because it is now...
>>>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...
>
>In which direction? And, if you wish to exchange childish snotty remarks,
FreeBSD -> Sparc, compiled X and isode-8.0 big enough for you ...
Also, I don't recall problems in the other direction...
Later,
Amancio
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