# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-09 21:26:10 -0800: > I have been doing a lot of reading in magazines like pcmagazine and > sought info online using sources like the freebsd homepage, zdnet, > cnet, etc. I'm hearing alot of your UNIX os. I have a few questions > about the system. First of all, is freebsd a real UNIX? By that I'm > asking whether or not there is real UNIX code in it or is it a clone > just like linux is?
I'm not competent enough to give you an answer, so here's an url: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/ > Second, what type of file system does it use? ufs/ffs. i'm a bit confused as to which name is right, and I see both names used. the documentation is the canonical source of course: /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz > Does it have a journaling one like ext3? ufs has a feature called "Soft Updates", which should get you the same result by different means. > I was told by my UNIX instructor that freebsd had hardware recognition > trouble. Is this true and if so has it been fixed? FreeBSD itself has no problems with hardware recognition. There might not be a driver for your hardware, though. :) Seriously, though: some hardware vendors are more likely to create GPL'd drivers for their products, thinking along the lines of "if I have to give up the knowledge of this portion of my stuff, no one else will make money from it either". Think nVidia. > I have also read that a lot of sysadmins are nervous of putting > mission critical apps on a enterprise linux system and prefer to use > freebsd. What is the problem that I'm hearing that linux has? Quite a few people will say: stability; I say: bloat. But some sysadmins are nervous of putting mission critical apps on anything but Solaris. It's mostly what you know: the best OS in the world is worthless if you can't administer it. > Do you believe the berkeley system to have code that has better > stability than the GNU systems? I look forward to your reply. yes, but what I believe is irrelevant. also, keep in mind that we're talking about the operating system, which I here define as the kernel plus supporting programs; IOW the stuff that you can get from the FreeBSD CVS repository. you might find that an application critical for you is unstable or displays unusual quirks on anything but linux because it does not get enough testing on other unices. This, unfortunately for quite a few people (that now covers even my mother and me as I have installed FreeBSD on her computer), covers KDE, OpenOffice, and lots of other, "office-oriented" software. Vietse Venema uses BSD unices as the primary development platforms. DJB's site runs on {Open,Free}BSD. Seems he's had bad luck with OpenBSD, see http://cr.yp.to/. It is my understanding that FreeBSD is the primary development platform for Apache, but given how many platforms it runs on, this is not really important. The Apache Software Foundation uses FreeBSD for their servers though. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message