The FreeBSD 'Zine Marches Forward

The famous jim writes: "The March issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available. This month's topics include WINE, doscmd, FreeBSD vs Linux, The FreeBSD Browser, and BSD and Science. As always, feedback is welcome. Enjoy!"

FreeBSD marches on

[The Unconquered One]

Thanks jim. It's nice to know there are well-supported free operating systems out there other than Linux. FreeBSD's central CVS repository convinced me it is superior, in terms of fragmentation and consistancy, to Linux.

I formerly managed Linux systems on a daily basis, every day being reminded of simple little things which operating system and distribution designers can't seem to agree on. Like if I should put a space after the l in gcc -lfoo, or not, of if it's not required..ugh..but I disgress.

FreeBSD is my choice at home, and I'm glad I have it. At least WINE, doscmd, Apache, and other major software projects work on both FreeBSD and Linux, sometimes smoother. Keep up the good work!

Re:Wow...

[DiSKiLLeR]

I didn't realize there was a port of doscmd to FreeBSD? Let's see: now I can run Windows programs, DOS programs, Linux programs, Solaris programs, as well as native FreeBSD programs without having to reboot. Way cool.

Yup. Life is good.

I actually haven't seen/used wine in about 5 years. (seriously). Perhaps more then that. I got some slackware 2.3 CDs somewhere, and on one of the extra cds in the CD set was wine (and other various stuff), so it was cool to try it out. It really was about 1995 when i played with it.

So nevertheless, after reading the story there, i got interested in giving wine another shot, and seeing how it works. Back then wine could run solitare, minesweeper, and that was pretty much it. Notepad, i think, ran too. Write, didn't. (This was with win3.1, infact Win95 wasn't out yet at the time).

*sits here and waits for the /usr/ports/emulators/wine port to fetch*

D.