In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810271807300.215-100000@skipper.robotics.net>, Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net> wrote:
I tried that several years ago and it blew up, I had to switch to FreeBSD.
This says nothing about the ability or stability of today's Linux or FreeBSD. -- Shields, CrossLink.
Michael Shields wrote:
In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810271807300.215-100000@skipper.robotics.net>, Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net> wrote:
I tried that several years ago and it blew up, I had to switch to FreeBSD.
This says nothing about the ability or stability of today's Linux or FreeBSD.
Right. FreeBSD is now MUCH better than linux, instead of just a little better. Doug (Oh c'mon... that comment was just DYING for a flame :) -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network ***
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
Right. FreeBSD is now MUCH better than linux, instead of just a little better.
Better? Performance is relative based on implementation. How many platforms does FreeBSD support? NetBSD and OpenBSD both support tons of platforms other than X86, as does Linux (the linux port to SGI appears to be the strongest SGI port so far). <disclaimer> This is not directed to you specifically, but to the free UNIX-like operating system supporters around the world. </disclaimer> It never ceases to amaze me how all the people who use free UNIX-like operating systems must beat their chests and badmouth other operating systems. I run several different flavors of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems at home and work. I've got IRIX 6.3, Solaris 2.6, Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. So far the most flaws I've found in the free operating systems are the characters of the people who write/contribute/support them, not necessarily the operating systems themselves. So you want to run *BSD? More power to you! Same with Linux! But could we please all put our johnsons away, zip up, and get on with something more costructive than arguing whether BSD is better than Linux? There are drivers and documentation to be written and new features to be added. Making petty jabs as to which OS is "better" just wastes time. Linux has definitely come a long way in it's short life, and does a hell of a lot compared to an operating system with roots in PDP systems whose code has been around as long as it has. They both have their place, they both work well in a lot of the same instances, and the both don't put a dime in Microsoft's pockets [I dislike Microsoft mostly because of their business practices and very few of their products are actually good. We can define "good" somewhere else]. For the record, I personally like both *BSD and Linux. Discussions about OS superiority don't belong on NANOG, so let's take this someplace else, please. Joe JAFO
Linux has definitely come a long way in it's short life, and does a hell of a lot compared to an operating system with roots in PDP systems whose code has been around as long as it has.
I'll say! [rirving@dryad rirving]$ uname -a Linux dryad 2.0.27 #3 Fri Apr 18 11:03:29 EST 1997 i586 [rirving@dryad rirving]$ uptime 9:27am up 393 days, 21:33, 1 user, load average: 0.65, 0.66, 0.65 [rirving@dryad rirving]$ ;)
For the record, I was making a joke. That's all. I was poking fun at gratuitous linux advocacy in an inappropriate forum. Joe Shaw wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
Right. FreeBSD is now MUCH better than linux, instead of just a little better.
Better? Performance is relative based on implementation. How many platforms does FreeBSD support?
Doesn't matter if freebsd kicks linux' ass on my platform of choice.
Discussions about OS superiority don't belong on NANOG
I posted one line, you posted six paragraphs. Get a grip. Doug
And for the record, if you read the first sentence of the post, I said that this wasn't directed to just you, but to all the people who find it necessary to talk smack about free UNIX-like operating systems. Joseph Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin/Security - Insync Internet Services Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Studded wrote:
For the record, I was making a joke. That's all. I was poking fun at gratuitous linux advocacy in an inappropriate forum.
Joe Shaw wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
Right. FreeBSD is now MUCH better than linux, instead of just a little better.
Better? Performance is relative based on implementation. How many platforms does FreeBSD support?
Doesn't matter if freebsd kicks linux' ass on my platform of choice.
Discussions about OS superiority don't belong on NANOG
I posted one line, you posted six paragraphs. Get a grip.
Doug
My apologies. I meant to trim nanog out of the reply list on this, as it doesn't belong on the list. Joseph Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin/Security - Insync Internet Services Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Joe Shaw wrote:
And for the record, if you read the first sentence of the post, I said that this wasn't directed to just you, but to all the people who find it necessary to talk smack about free UNIX-like operating systems.
Joseph Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin/Security - Insync Internet Services Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
Right. FreeBSD is now MUCH better than linux, instead of just a little better.
Doug (Oh c'mon... that comment was just DYING for a flame :)
oh, please :) They both have their strengths and limitations, yadda yadda, we should really at least pretend to be civilized here :) obcontent: for folks wishing to play with insane packet forwarding rates on pc gear check out Alexy's (linux's mad russian routing guru) fastrouting hacks. 150k pps vanilla forwarding on pentium class machines with tulip cards. in the 2.1 tree, along with many other nice routing improvements. -- zach - - - - - - 007 373 5963
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