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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12596 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3366 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 15 Aug 1994 20:02:12 GMT Organization: HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32ohk4$4rh@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> <31trcr$9n@euterpe.owl.de> <3256t1$rbn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <327nj0$sfq@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill Heiser (bill@bhhome.ci.net) wrote: : Someone in c.o.l.d. mentioned that he wanted to work on this but couldn't : find the specs for the NFS file-locking mechanism. I hope he (or someone) : does soon! I don't want to have to dump LINUX, with it's nice complete : "fully operational system out of the box" and go with the piecemeal *bsd : products (not that there's anything wrong with *bsd, it's just less : convenient to install since it requires days or weeks of hunting for : utilities, compiling them, installing them, etc, whereas with LINUX : distributions, all the useful stuff is already there). I had to switch back from Slackware 2.0.0 with Linux Kernel 1.0.9 to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 because I had severe trouble with smail, sendmail, rtin (in conj. with inn). Things are changing too much. Large distribs aren't tested well :-( I'm again very happy with a stable working standard platform. BTW: the FreeBSD 1.1 CD-Rom (Walnut Cr.) contains many precompiled packages, that are easily to install using pkg_add. And additionally a tree of "ported software" (sources). FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 together with that CD works like a charm. My intention is not to flame linux ... I only want to point typical problems with linux ... If you are satisfied with one release, don't expect, that the next is working better or more stable ... It mostly contains a lot of new stuff - sometimes not well tested, so expect new problems :-( Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)