FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000 comparison

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> SuSe defaults to Reiserfs.
> On 16 Aug 2002 at 16:48, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
> 
>>One of the downticks that Linux receives are because of its default use 
>>of a non-journalled write-behind file system. 

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.