FreeBSD vs Linux on TechTV September 2, 7pm EDT (Live)

[Devon H. O'Dell]

I hope these boxes are preconfigured. See if you can fit ports in 
anywhere... also see if you can fit in the FS structure. Those are two 
things that go unnoticed and are two things that Linux has HUGE problems 
with -- packages suck and there's really no standardized filesystem. 
Installing and configuring packages is a nightmare. I'd suggest 
installing something from ports (I dunno, blackbox or xmame or 
something) and display how orderly it goes :). It can't hurt to show 
that FBSD Is Consistent.

Unfortunately, we're going head to head with a kernel that's being used 
in a lot of desktop-oriented things. There's no way FBSD will win a 
desktop battle... especially not when the Linux guys break out VMware 4 
-- which is one of a few apps that FBSD can't emulate due to its kernel 
hooks.

All the same, I wish you good luck! And if someone makes an MPEG, let me 
know where to get it :)

Devon

Murray Stokely wrote:

>Matt Olander and I will do another (hopefully longer) segment on the
>"Screen Savers" show against some guys from Linux Journal this
>afternoon.  We're mostly going to be showing off various cool GUI apps
>on one box while an install takes place on another box.  Our original
>pitch to them was for benchmarking and server tasks, but there will be
>absolutely none of that as it wasn't deemed very television-friendly.
>So GUI eyecandy it shall be.  It's live and if the last show is any
>indication it's likely to be rather impromptu.
>
>Recordings (on tape or mpeg) of the episode would be much appreciated.
>
>       - Murray
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