On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mike Bristow wrote:
> True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards
> (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported
> under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk
> may turn turn into ext2 rather than ffs)
W
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> Mike Bristow wrote:
> >
> > True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards
> > (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported
> > under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of th
Mike Bristow wrote:
>
> True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards
> (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported
> under Linux but not under FreeBSD AFAIK; so the other half of the disk
> may turn turn into ext2 rather than ffs)
>
> The other 2 box
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:59:08PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>
> > Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn't love em?), I hear
> > the above quite a lot.
> >
> > I'm under the firm belief that a decent sys admin can rub either system t
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn't love em?), I hear
> the above quite a lot.
>
> I'm under the firm belief that a decent sys admin can rub either system to
> do whatever they want it to do. Not that I am questioning your abilit
:On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:59:34AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
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:Re NFS stability. What version of the 3.x branch contained the updated NFS
:code? 3.3?
:
:Thanks,
:sk
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3.3 got a big chunk of it but 3.4 has even more. 4.0 has all the bug
fixes (there were so
>
> > What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where
> > do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports?
> > Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are
> > their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What
> > mechanism crea
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:59:34AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Linux has made great strides in the performance area -- the are way ahead
> of us on SMP issues, but they are definitely still behind in the
> reliable department. They almost caught up when we were going through
>
:On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
:> Granted, a lot of Linux distributions are totally unsuited for a server
:> environment. Compared to that, I could understand why the
:> server-orientedness of FreeBSD is attractive, but I certainly couldn't put
:> up a reasonable arguement for eith
> It's release structure means FreeBSD is a complete operating system (as
> opposed to a kernel and one of several distributions) and machines are
> maintainable and upgradable in production over long periods of time via
> the STABLE branch.
I can agree with you here, as our organization has
> What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where
> do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports?
> Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are
> their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What
> mechanism creates their re
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> Granted, a lot of Linux distributions are totally unsuited for a server
> environment. Compared to that, I could understand why the
> server-orientedness of FreeBSD is attractive, but I certainly couldn't put
> up a reasonable arguement for either si
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>
> > systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few
> > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD,
> > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team
On Wed 2000-02-02 (11:18), Michael Bacarella wrote:
> > systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few
> > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD,
> > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have
> > implemen
> systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few
> years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD,
> due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have
> implemented.
Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn'
> As you may or may not be aware, google.com has a linux specific search
> engine at http://www.google.com/linux. I have expressed interest in
> possibly creating a freebsd specific search engine. I need support from
> the BSD community for this. If this is something we might all enjoy and
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