From kragen@dnaco.net Thu Sep 3 09:25:18 1998 Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:25:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: Dan Ryan Subject: Re: [ST] Is it just me ... (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 1642 Status: O X-Status: Some subjective comparisons between FreeBSD and Linux. -- Kragen Sitaker We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually. -- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 01:24:33 +0000 From: Antony T Curtis Reply-To: systalk@ml.org To: "systalk@ml.org" Subject: Re: [ST] Is it just me ... On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:46:33 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: > >I am in the process of persuading our company to fully support Linux (we >already do but do not advertize it) as an equal in our sales literature >with Solaris, HP-UX, etc. > >One of the problems I have is places like www.linux.org > >It is just not very professional to go there and see a big banner at the >top of the screen that says "What do you want to crack today". It does not >help to dispel the myth that Linux is mainly an OS for the cracking >community. > >Sure, I can try to explain it to them what the RC5 crask is but as my >friend Hope says, "If you're explainin', you're loosin'." The *BSD pages look much more professional (IMHO). Last week, I scrubbed RH5.0 and had a play with FreeBSD. I was quite pleasantly surprised with it - it seems to be more solid and much faster than I expected - it *feels* faster than RH5.0 did on it (P133,1.2GB IDE, 16MB EDO RAM, 256KB PLCACHE). YMMV Regards Antony. Creator of PowerMOD/2 and other such things... Site of The Universal Nexus (http://nuts.ml.org/) Apache-SSL for OS/2 (intl) OLCS Net Administrator ICQ#11066935 antony.curtis@olcs.net