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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.inap.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4kctc2$jt@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <31657509.5E45C160@gnu.ai.mit.edu> <4k76gl$5s4@dyson.iquest.net> <4kb5vo$fqn@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 05:42:26 GMT Lines: 41 In article <4kb5vo$fqn@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>, Alan T Krantz <atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU> wrote: >Charlie Root (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote: >: In article <31657509.5E45C160@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, >: H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >: > >: >I have been flamed on that by people like you from >: >the Linux camp :-(. Someone has to do it. If not for Linux, >: >your FreeBSD/ELF tools may not like what you have today. >: >I thought FreeBSD might be fun. It seems that I was wrong :-(. >: > >: Don't give up on FreeBSD. Anyone (competent) is welcome to work on it. >: Alot of problems sometimes get started by people saying things that can be >: construed as advocacy for "the dark side, whomever that is", and causing >: responses to that, as opposed to responses acknowleging a request for >: cooperation to contribute. > > >I think the ELF/a.out debate is a little silly, however, I do have some >comments in comparing FreeBSD to Linux. I've been running FreeBSD 2.0 >for about 7 months and Linux about 2 weeks. I'm getting ready to upgrade I am suprised that you have run FreeBSD V2.0 for 7mos??? I am that it worked at all for you. FreeBSD V2.0 in production is evil and is NOT in any way representative in perf of either the 1.X series or the rest of the 2.X series. I have warned those people that have tried to use V2.0 in production. Some of the bugs in that release were mine, and I have regretted them. That release was a result of the now fully resolved legal issues regarding the Net/2 based code releases. We were under pressure to get the code out, and frankly worked our tails off, and near release time warned people to use the code "carefully." Imagine having to start from scratch again, and needing to produce a release in 6mos... That is what we did. That fiasco is equally as likely to happen again on FreeBSD or Linux -- read NOT AT ALL. FreeBSD V2.1 acts TOTALLY DIFFERENTLY (in an improved way) from V2.0... John dyson@freebsd.org