I've been hearing a lot about FreeBSD since Apple integrated it into the Mac OS X. An integration like this doesn't happen over night, I imagine that Apple has been funding the project for quite some time. With Apple's focus on usability, it's no wonder FreeBSD's user-friendliness is a bit of an anomaly. The first thing I think is "Why FreeBSD and not Linux?" Regardless, the idea of a UNIX underbelly with a slick Mac GUI system is like a dream come true. The question is, can I still get down and dirty into the UNIX side, does it still feel like UNIX under the hood? Anyone here tried out OS X yet? David > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Austad, Jay > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:49 AM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: [TCLUG] Freebsd lovin' > > > Ok, I know this is a linux list and all, but I just installed FreeBSD 4.4, > and well... It rocks. I used the mini-iso image, which fits on one of > those little 3 inch CDRs. > > Primarily, I did it for a qmail server. With linux, I was limited to 509 > concurrent outgoing connections without patching the kernel, and no patch > exists for the 2.4 kernels (at least that I could find). With FreeBSD, I > just add -DFD_SETSIZE=65536 to the compile options for qmail, and I'm able > to do over 32,000 concurrent outgoing connections, about 60 times > more than > linux. I don't have it set that high of course, but, the ability > is there. > > > And installing software from the ports tree works excellent. I tried > downloading apachetoolbox (apachetoolbox.com) and couldn't get it > to compile > correctly, so I just went into the ports directory into each directory for > apache+modssl, mod_php4, and mysql, and did a make/make install > in each one. > No errors, and it installed everything perfectly. > > If you haven't tried freebsd, now is a good time to give it a shot. I > selected the express install (and then just the development > package) on the > cd, and then set up networking before I rebooted. My roommate > did a regular > install and he had problems, but he was probably smoking crack. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list