On 11/10/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 10 Nov 2005 4:49 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > > On 11/10/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which commonly used packages does Freebsd have in it ports collection > > > that Debian/Ubuntu doesnt? > > > > You can find more info here -> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ > > I know where the ports are. I just wanted to know which packages do people > commonly find missing in Linux that Freebsd has.
You need to phrase your questions better then. Commonly used differs from person to person. An network admin's commonly used tools will be different from a kernel developers or a graphic designers. > > > Also, can anyone point me to any references which have performance > > > measurements of Freebsd versus Linux? Till now I have only heard about > > > FreeBSD being better in performance than Linux. Anyone has any links to > > > tests which have proved to you that it is better? > > > > Most of them are old now since the release of Linux 2.6 and FreeBSD > > 6.0 recently. > > You can google for performance tests. > > Again, I can google it myself. But I just wanted to know that how much do > people saying "FreeBSD better than Linux", actually base it on facts that > they have actually read or seen themselves. Depends on what you want to do with it? Do you want to use it as a desktop ? Do you want to use it as a mail-server/router ? Define the problem better. Define the workload of the machine. May I point you to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html :) Cheers Vinayak H _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
