Well, first off, remember one main reason he gave for picking Linux is the wide array of device drivers (which FreeBSD is lacking in) and that commercial vendors have started writing drivers for the Linux kernel (which all the BSD's lack).
Second off, FreeBSD effectively doesn't run on anything but x86. What is the new Amiga going to be based on? G4? x86? Merced? (I really don't know). Granted, NetBSD has been ported to more architectures then Linux, but between NetBSD and Linux, I'll pick Linux anyday.
Honestly, on a tangent, my one problem with the BSD's is the licencing issue. When I'm installing a system or writing code, I pick Linux. Not because I don't like BSD, but because I don't want to throw my chip into a system that, if it ever did become successful, would just be plundered and splintered by commercial interests recreating the unix wars of the 80's and 90's. I stick with Linux 'cause of the GPL virus. Although there may be many flavors of GNU/Linux systems, they will always feed off each other and converge based only on natural selection and not on the commercial interests of rich industrialists.
Man, I hate to sound like an asshole, but does anyone else get the feeling that this same one AC is just trolling slashdot, chiming in on his 21 day (it was 21 days last time I saw this guy post, not three weeks) uptime with W2K Beta every chance he gets, raving about the wonders of W2K & IE5/insert random M$ product?
Anyway. Netscape under linux.. bus error? Try turning off java. I have yet to see a needed use for java on the web anyway (reminds me of the tag). I run netscape (4.6) for weeks at a time. And lynx renders pages 5 times faster then IE, so if rendering speed is the brick wall you're running up against, try it.
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Hey, I thought proxy support was supposed to be broken? (it's in the faq somewhere)
Well, first off, remember one main reason he gave for picking Linux is the wide array of device drivers (which FreeBSD is lacking in) and that commercial vendors have started writing drivers for the Linux kernel (which all the BSD's lack).
Second off, FreeBSD effectively doesn't run on anything but x86. What is the new Amiga going to be based on? G4? x86? Merced? (I really don't know). Granted, NetBSD has been ported to more architectures then Linux, but between NetBSD and Linux, I'll pick Linux anyday.
Honestly, on a tangent, my one problem with the BSD's is the licencing issue. When I'm installing a system or writing code, I pick Linux. Not because I don't like BSD, but because I don't want to throw my chip into a system that, if it ever did become successful, would just be plundered and splintered by commercial interests recreating the unix wars of the 80's and 90's. I stick with Linux 'cause of the GPL virus. Although there may be many flavors of GNU/Linux systems, they will always feed off each other and converge based only on natural selection and not on the commercial interests of rich industrialists.
Blame Canada!
Well, yeah, but only ascii porn.
But man does it render FAST!
Man, I hate to sound like an asshole, but does anyone else get the feeling that this same one AC is just trolling slashdot, chiming in on his 21 day (it was 21 days last time I saw this guy post, not three weeks) uptime with W2K Beta every chance he gets, raving about the wonders of W2K & IE5/insert random M$ product?
Anyway. Netscape under linux.. bus error? Try turning off java. I have yet to see a needed use for java on the web anyway (reminds me of the tag). I run netscape (4.6) for weeks at a time. And lynx renders pages 5 times faster then IE, so if rendering speed is the brick wall you're running up against, try it.
I gotta set my default up to 1.....
So, what sort of numbers would a uniprocessor machine spit out under the linpack benchmark?
(i.e. my cyrix 166)