> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 01:40:38 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 20) Multi-staged booting. You don't need to change your MBR when you
> install a new kernel (or want to roll back to a different kernel). I
> think I've only been stuck high and dry w/o a bootable system twice in
> four years
>
> 7. FreeBSD is developed very rapidly. Especially if you subscribe to
> mailing lists, you can see bugs fixed almost as soon as they are
> mentioned. New features are added more conservatively, however. New
> stuff is tried out in -CURRENT, where the heavy-duty FreeBSD hackers
> make it stabl
Dear Andrew,
>
> 18) Ports. 'ya can't forget them.
>
More importantly, ports that are going to work on all free BSD's. If you
haven't been keeping track of Open Packages, those guys have put the pedal
to the metal.
>
> Just my ramblings. I don't evangelize much, but it strikes me
> as o
> 8) For a firewall, ipfw blows the doors off of Linux's
> iptables/ipchains/ipmasq/whatever.
>
> If you want a stateful firewall, look at ipf (also very very
> very very very nice!!!) I'm waiting for ipf to get bridging support
FreeBSD's ipfw is stafeful as well, and there are no plans
(
Read #1, but skip the rest, it's opinion.
BSD license, right? Without disagreeing with any of the
previous points, let me step into evangelism mode here and borrow/add
my own comments. Please take replies to the evangelism list, however
(maybe post a variant of this on FreeBSD
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:46:01PM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
> Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a
> couple (read: 412) questions about switching to
> FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that
> I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get
> better.
>
> 1. Can I w
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:46:01PM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
> Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a
> couple (read: 412) questions about switching to
> FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that
> I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get
> better.
>
> 1. Can I w
Wow, thanks alot for all your advice. I just have a
couple (read: 412) questions about switching to
FreeBSD (if I should do it.) Please keep in mind that
I am a hobbyist developer, but am looking to get
better.
1. Can I work on the GNOME project under FreeBSD? Does
anyone have Ximian GNOME runnin
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:02AM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
> Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
> NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
> What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
> Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an
> interesting pro
* Jason Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010404 11:07] wrote:
> It sounds like a good idea to me. From what I _think_
> I understand, I can make some kind of FreeBSD boot
> floppy, and mount some kind of "virtual partition"
> containing FreeBSD that is simply a file on my Windows
> partition how fa
It sounds like a good idea to me. From what I _think_
I understand, I can make some kind of FreeBSD boot
floppy, and mount some kind of "virtual partition"
containing FreeBSD that is simply a file on my Windows
partition how far off-base am I??? If I can do
this some way, what are some steps t
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:02AM -0700, Jason Victor wrote:
> Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
> NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
> What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
> Linux-type thing for FreeBSD?
Not as far as I know (if UMSDOS of Phat
* Mike Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010404 08:02] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem
> > b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual
> >device:
> >
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem
> b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual
>device:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html
>
* Jason Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010404 05:17] wrote:
> Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
> NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
> What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
> Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an
> interesting project
Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will
NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation.
What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat
Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an
interesting project to undertake. If there isn't one,
and anyone wants to start it, tel
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