Get a life you flaming troll. The fact is that FreeBSD and Linux are very similar OS'es that are both stable and function well as a server, or even a desktop machine provided that you don't go at it with the windows "yeah I'll do what Lord Bill says" mentality. BSD and Linux are both great, and are far better than the majority OS family. BSD'ers and Linux users should work together. Both OS'es get the job done and do it well. Yeah I'm a GNU/linux user, but I truly think we should stop this petty bickering and work towards improving both flavors of *nix.
I'm thinking maybe running the bochs PC emulator, and installing it on a bochs drive? VMware if you want something faster/more stable and are willing to shell out the money for a single user license...
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well its called 'unstable' because it is the development branch and there may be issues. in my experience even the unstable version is very very stable... moreso than SuSE or Red Hat distributions... I'm not much of a FreeBSD user, I installed it once and have a few FreeBSD cd's laying around the house, even set it up as a firewall once. I like it, but for the most part I like my debian unstable. Never crashes, occasionally something breaks but its usually fixed within days, and all I need is to run apt-get to fix the errors. I never could figure out how the whole "ports" thing worked though... maybe I was a little too impatient to spend the five minutes required to figure it out. *shrugs*
Actually, most the of the Debian users I know, including myself, just apt-get the binaries from trusted sources. (mainly any debian.org mirror). I still compile a few things and even tweak around with the code a little (and end up usually breaking something). When I used slack I would either download the binary from a slackware mirror under slackware-current and use pkgtool to install the binary... However I did tend to compile alot more under slack.
Whoah... Peace and love and Linux man... pretty far out... I wonder if the drug culture has caught on... Its been a while since I was involved, but can you find Tux or Daemon blotter out there now?
Actually, my latest Debian system was installed over a 14.4 modem. My last machine was sold and it had a 56k with it. So I basically took a gutted machine and put stuff together to get it running, and installed Debian on it. It was easy, but involved much patience to get things such as Netscape, Window Maker, XF86, and gcc, make, libs, etc. If you have patience Debian can work on your machine even with a crappy 14.4
I use potato and am already considering changing my source lists and upgrading to woody (once my modem is upgraded on the first). I think that woody will have the 2.4 kernels shortly, but even so, if I were still running potato I'd just download kernel source from ftp.us.kernel.org and compile a 2.4 kernel and install it. Its not really that hard.
Hm. I don't consider Debian hard to install at all. I just use apt-get for everything and avoid dselect. In my experience, it has been the easiest to install by modem, and is best because I am not tempted to install anything I don't need. Rather, if I need it I install it (using apt-get of course).
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Get a life you flaming troll. The fact is that FreeBSD and Linux are very similar OS'es that are both stable and function well as a server, or even a desktop machine provided that you don't go at it with the windows "yeah I'll do what Lord Bill says" mentality. BSD and Linux are both great, and are far better than the majority OS family. BSD'ers and Linux users should work together. Both OS'es get the job done and do it well. Yeah I'm a GNU/linux user, but I truly think we should stop this petty bickering and work towards improving both flavors of *nix.
I'm thinking maybe running the bochs PC emulator, and installing it on a bochs drive? VMware if you want something faster/more stable and are willing to shell out the money for a single user license...
well its called 'unstable' because it is the development branch and there may be issues. in my experience even the unstable version is very very stable... moreso than SuSE or Red Hat distributions... I'm not much of a FreeBSD user, I installed it once and have a few FreeBSD cd's laying around the house, even set it up as a firewall once. I like it, but for the most part I like my debian unstable. Never crashes, occasionally something breaks but its usually fixed within days, and all I need is to run apt-get to fix the errors. I never could figure out how the whole "ports" thing worked though... maybe I was a little too impatient to spend the five minutes required to figure it out. *shrugs*
Actually, most the of the Debian users I know, including myself, just apt-get the binaries from trusted sources. (mainly any debian.org mirror). I still compile a few things and even tweak around with the code a little (and end up usually breaking something). When I used slack I would either download the binary from a slackware mirror under slackware-current and use pkgtool to install the binary... However I did tend to compile alot more under slack.
Whoah... Peace and love and Linux man... pretty far out... I wonder if the drug culture has caught on... Its been a while since I was involved, but can you find Tux or Daemon blotter out there now?
Actually, my latest Debian system was installed over a 14.4 modem. My last machine was sold and it had a 56k with it. So I basically took a gutted machine and put stuff together to get it running, and installed Debian on it. It was easy, but involved much patience to get things such as Netscape, Window Maker, XF86, and gcc, make, libs, etc. If you have patience Debian can work on your machine even with a crappy 14.4
I use potato and am already considering changing my source lists and upgrading to woody (once my modem is upgraded on the first). I think that woody will have the 2.4 kernels shortly, but even so, if I were still running potato I'd just download kernel source from ftp.us.kernel.org and compile a 2.4 kernel and install it. Its not really that hard.
Hm. I don't consider Debian hard to install at all. I just use apt-get for everything and avoid dselect. In my experience, it has been the easiest to install by modem, and is best because I am not tempted to install anything I don't need. Rather, if I need it I install it (using apt-get of course).