On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:08, David Leimbach wrote: > Not to mention FreeBSD now has binary updates for security patches. I > think this is a huge step forward for sysadmins of FreeBSD systems > everywhere.
Yes, Colin Percival did a great job at making this. BSdiff was actually invented for his thesis. > Not to mention the fact that I installed what was supposed to be a > "demo box" for a bugtracker at work over 2 years ago and I almost > forgot about it cuz the sucker never dies! > > I've yet to have such an experience with ANY version of linux due to > weird kernel mishaps. Many of my linux zealot buddies really think > "the last great linux kernel" was 2.0.36 :). I have to admit though, > that when it comes to hardware driver support, linux is currently the > winner. I still have to disagree with this (for PC hardware). We see here that Linux frequently has poor support / broken support for much of the PC server hardware we sell here. FreeBSD tends to work better / faster / more reliably on the same hardware than Linux does. If Linux even works at all (and I mean in general: we get installation requests for RHEL, FCn, SuSE, Debian, and others). > Dave --Devon
