FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000 comparison

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Good luck with the class. I think one of the main differences is that Linux 
has several distributions each putting their own spin on Linux where 
FreeBSD is a single distribution. Both are good.
"Mark J. Dulcey" wrote:

> I was talking about the fact that the default on all Linux distributions 
> at the time he wrote his article was ext2.
> 
> I didn't know SuSE was installing reiserfs by default now; I haven't 
> done a new install for a while, and upgrades don't change your file 
> systems. But I did know that they make it painless to install it. I did 
> a new Red Hat 7.3 install a few days ago, and that installed ext3 by 
> default.
> 
> Mostly I run SuSE. But I was taking a summer class on GUI programming on 
> Linux, using KDE and Qt... I had built my previous projects on SuSE, but 
> the instructors had trouble building my next-to-last one (gcc couldn't 
> find minmax.h!), so I set up a Red Hat system so I could test my final 
> project on the environment they would be using. I was pleasantly 
> surprised; the Red Hat install process has improved a lot since the last 
> time I used it regularly. On the other hand, I couldn't get Red Hat's 
> online update stuff to work at all (couldn't get through to the 
> servers), though I suppose that buying a subscription to RHN might fix that.
> 
> Anyhow, the class went well. I wrote a couple of things that I will 
> release to the real world eventually, after they get a bit more polishing.
> 

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