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From: setok@FIX.TIN.DOMAIN (Kristoffer Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Followup-To: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Date: 18 Mar 1997 15:08:24 GMT
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Matt Dillon (dillon@flea.best.net) wrote:
: FreeBSD has, frankly, a much more serious development team. They care
: about security, they care about doing things the right way, they
: care about keeping the core and surrounding utilities reasonably up
: to date, about keeping their customers up to date, about fixing bugs
: and security holes... one can call it a 'research system' all one likes,
: but it doesn't change the fact that FreeBSD and BSDI are both serious
: operating systems, both better supported and more professional then IRIX.
Hm, last I heard, FreeBSD had serious troubles when running under heavy
loads on some Internet servers around here, totally crashing their machines.
I also doubt FreeBSD supports any sensible SMP or filesystems like XFS etc.
though I admit I haven't been following recent development in FreeBSD.
After I got the patched IRIX6.3 I haven't had any problems with it and this
O2 has been very stable.
Oh btw. I'd be interested to know more about the IRIX internals. I
guess it's not a microkernel (I'm a great supporter of them ;-), but how
easy is it to add device drivers and things like that? Loadable
modules? Something even neater?
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