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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!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!coconut!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!pasteur.fr!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!caussep From: caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe CAUSSE) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E7nt90.H5@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <01bc39ca$4cb6d9c0$232c3d9b@muna019> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:46:12 GMT Lines: 89 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38157 Andreas Hinterleitner (ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com) wrote: : 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 Uh ! Strange... I never had any such troubles with it ! Looks like somthing jammed during your install... : - 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!) Sorry, never used it... : - color X-terminals (e.g. rxvt) don't use color by default (still don't : know how to change this) You have to installe the proper entry in your termcap: 1) edit /usr/share/misc/termcap 2) Add the entry for rxvt 3) cd to /usr/share/misc 4) re-compile the termcap database with cap_mkdb 5) run color-aware programs 6) enjoy :-) : - the APM on my Compaq LTE Elite doesn't work correctly, even with apm : driver present (return from standby: screen is still black); No info on this subject... : 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!) Second time I see this... sounds like Compaq's hardware is 100% compatible with Compaq, not with the std PC architecture! : - 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) Get one of these "wonderful linux file managers" and compile it on your FreeBSD box, there aren't any reasons why it should not run on FreeBSD: both have POSIX-ish interface to directories, both have XFree86, both have GCC. IMHO, you'll regret your command line some day... : - 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!) Depends on which console driver you're using. It's a pure matter of personal taste, but my choice went for the PCVT driver (VT220 compat.) where keystrokes are clearly following the DEC standard (interesting when you're rloging to a Sun box...). This driver is not fooled with BS/DEL confusions... If you want BS, use Shift+ "<-", if you want DEL, simply press "<-". Anyway, both drivers (PCVT & SCO-like) can be dynamically reconfigured. Choice is your's! : - 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 Have a look at the on-line handbook, it's far more advanced than the HTML pages supplied with 2.1.5-R. Next, you should probably spend a couple of nights reading the 4.4BSD books from O'Reilly & Associates. The most important ones are: 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual (SMM) 4.4BSD User's Reference Manual (URM) 4.4BSD Programmers Reference Manual (PRM) You can also read: 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents (USD) 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD) They are quite cheap and real value for money. : 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? Try to find a friend in your neighbourhood who's already keen on BSD, he'll certainly be able to explain those things better than I am in Usenet! Cheers, Philippe. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)