[Lilux-help] FreeBSD, compile from source and Distributions

[Pascal Steichen]

Hi all,

This was a really nice debate, so nice that I think it would be worth keeping some key elements of it. So I aks you all who would be volunteer to write a little article about his favorite distro, explaining why one should specfically use that one, which we could then published on the lilux website. What do you think about it ?

Well we could even enlarge the scope of this to specific programs, I'm for isntance thinking about the KDE / GNOME issue !

Coming back to the debate I'm a fully debian converted, apt really is great, however I hate dselect ;) 

I also iused (tested) other distros : 

gentoo : nice but the compilation is a real pain in the ass if you like to have an app up an runing fast !

redhat, mandrake, & suse : well these arre the commercial ones, and the thing I don't like tis that one has to wait the whole 6 moths before getting a full upgrade, in debian and others y oucan have a step-by-step upgrade

caldera & corel : caldera was in fact my first linux distro and corel the second, but well not much to say, they are past anyway ;)

On the desktop side I'm a GNOME-guy, however tending more and more to fluxbox due to the strangenesses in  gnome 2.6 .

cheers,
pst


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:57:29AM +0200, Patrick Kaell wrote:
> Michael Scherer wrote:
> 
> 
> >and there is commercial support, :
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting.html
> 
> I like the *BSDs and I also think that they are technically superior to 
> Linux. But the difference (unlike compared to Windows) between Linux and 
> *BSD just is too small to justify giving up commercial support.
> 
> By commercial support I can give you an example:
> 
> At work we use HP DL380 servers from HP. HP provides Linux drivers and 
> agents for everything (for RedHat's Enterprise distributions). You can 
> control the temperature of different zones, rotating speed of the fans, 
> RAID status. There is a curses based tool to configure the RAID. If 
> there is a problem, it gets logged into syslogd and the agent sends SNMP 
> traps.
> 
> Without the agents installed, I would *not* get noticed when a drive 
> fails. I would not see a single line in syslogd. OK, there is a red 
> light on the drive itself which goes on, but the servers aren't all 
> located on our site!
> 
> The industry just has settled on Linux! They may support a second 
> systems besides Windows (and it is justified because Linux is quite 
> different to Windows and Linux does many things Windows cannot do), but 
> they will not support a third system where the benefits are quite marginal.
> 
> Many organisations who replace commercial Unix by Linux need Oracle and 
> DB2 support (emulation just doesn't cut it). They don't just do FTP, WWW 
> and Mail especially on the large servers.
> 
> Don't forget, I have *BSD installed on many machines at home and as a 
> firewall I run NetBSD on a Sun SparcClassic. But I would not recommend 
> it at work, where people just have accepted Linux.
> 
> Patrick Kaell
> 
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