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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 4 Feb 1997 17:48:31 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net>,
Bennett Todd <bet@nospam.interactive.net> wrote:
> >One reason that we have the Linux emulator (and EXT2FS) is to ease the
> >upgrade to FreeBSD from Linux.
> I've never heard of anybody going that way. Why would they want to?
FreeBSD is a lot more stable and reliable than Linux.
I've been evaluating Red Hat 4.0, so I could run Linux programs on my
FreeBSD box, but it's been flakey as hell (they REALLY broke the SCSI
subsystem on the install disk) and I think I'll just use the Linux
emulator.
And I know quite a few people who switched from Linux to FreeBSD. You're
about the first example of anyone going the other way that I'm aware
of.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'