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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.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4mr03n$cbq@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 20:27:35 GMT Lines: 35 In article <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >>And you probably really meant to >>say "saving me the agony of messing with an alpha-quality >>IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive". The driver works perfectly if your >>vendor didn't violate the ATAPI specification, one way or the >>other, or if you don't have one of the buggy (3 out of 5 of all >>available cards) IDE controllers. > >Are you saying that FreeBSD doesn't work on 3 out of 5 IDE CD-ROMS? >Ouch! Or perhaps I've misunderstood you... > I have heard that Linux has similar problems... *sigh* > >Has FreeBSD fixed their broken DOS FS support yet? Does >FreeBSD have VFAT (Win 95) support yet? > Well, one of the contributors is working on it. The emphasis for FreeBSD has been to do U**X right. That obviously isn't the emphasis on Linux. If you need U**X to work the best that it can, use FreeBSD. If you need to run DOS, run DOS. Linux doesn't do either as well. >>Again, your choice to buy the hardware. > >That's not much consolation to a user who happens to have a non-working >(under FreeBSD) CD-ROM drive that they can get easially working under >Linux. > Again, I have heard that Linux has similar problems. John