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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.18.199.254!wotan.compaq.com!twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com!news From: "Andreas Hinterleitner" <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> Subject: FreeBSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <01bc39ca$4cb6d9c0$232c3d9b@muna019> Sender: news@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com (System Administrator) Organization: Compaq Computer Corp. Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:46:04 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 155.61.44.35 Lines: 40 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37743 I did some experiments with Linux (2.0.29) and FreeBSD (2.1.5) on a x86 and Pentium platform and encountered FreeBSD not so well adapted to the PC Hardware as Linux is. Some of my problems with FreeBSD: - stderr and stdout seems to be hard wired with ttyv0; this causes strange effects on the screen when e.g. a login on ttyv1 is done - midnight commander acts strange on some keystrokes and mouse movements (CTRL+O doesn't work at all: once I disabled the panels, I cannot bring them back!) - color X-terminals (e.g. rxvt) don't use color by default (still don't know how to change this) - the APM on my Compaq LTE Elite doesn't work correctly, even with apm driver present (return from standby: screen is still black); also the kernel reports "sio0: not found on 0x3f8" - the PC setup shows COM1 at exactly this address and a 16550 compatible UART is used (Linux has no problems with this!) - because of the absence of a nice window manager in the FreeBSD version that I use, I decided to work with olvwm - with the result, that some xview programs that are part of the "usual" xview distribution are missing (props, textedit) - my DEL key doesn't act as normal but like the BACKSPACE key (DEL should delete the character below the actual cursor position and work to the right, not to the left!) - the FreeBSD "handbook" is only a poor basis for obtaining general information about FreeBSD as other documentation is also; I ordered some books to get in depth information; kernel parameters are sparsely commented I like FreeBSD and ordered version 2.1.7, and I also want to use this OS in the future (together with Linux). Can anyone give me some clues to help me with my problems?