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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!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!arcom.rcom.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: Linux versus FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <Dtton1.6s7@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960617205112.16156C-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> <4qqg7f$dt@anorak.coverform.lan> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:01:49 GMT Lines: 50 Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : David Zakai (zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu) wrote: : : Would some FreeBSD users offer reasons why you have chosen this : : OS over Linux? : Luck. I was told about 386BSD-0.1 & I loaded it. I was told about : linux shortly afterwards, and tried to load it. I failed - because : lilo (the linux boot program) has hardcoded stuff about it's physical : location embeded in it. 386BSD's boot blocks did not. I was trying : to copy each os from one machine to another. What I can add... 1. FreeBSD is BSD -- after a pretty painful experience of administering Usenet, e-mail and network servers with SCO Xenix and SCO Unix 3.2 I got some kind of idiosyncrazia against "System V" Unices, despite of the fact that today commercial unix OSes are 90% SysV. 2. Look at people who does the thing. I consider Linux to be "a joy of young hackers" while FreeBSD is "a hobby of wisards". I _love_ the second approach. The direct cosequence of this is the fact that communicating with FreeBSD developers is _much_ more pleasant, than with Linux fans -- and creative. I'm very impressed with FreeBSD team. They are great professionals. 3. Performance and stability. Yes, Linux is great, but look at wcarchive.cdrom.com... and show me just a single PC and OS combo with such a load. I'm pretty sure that in teh terms of real-life performance FreeBSD-2.2-current _is_ the ultimate leader in PC world. Benchmarks? I don't care about them. 4. For a poor young men in a poor Eastern European country like me the ability to get the production quality Unix, which runs on just any cheap PC hardware, like FreeBSD -- and for free! This is a gift of God. -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.