VanLUG Email Archive
> Perhaps someone could enumerate the things Linux and *BSD is good for,
> leaving out the mutually inclusive things.
> I was ready to try out freebsd, but they did not support atapi (cdrom)
> at that time, so it was a mute point, are they now?
I gather that the support for MBone, multicast etc. is better in
FreeBSD. I think that mrouted works properly, etc. - as I recall, at
least in Linux 2.0.3x, mrouted works but you can't run Mbone apps on the
same machine. Alan Cox told me at one point that support for it would
never be included, but I guess he changed his mind ....
(MBone, if anyone doesn't know, is the multicast "backbone" protocol
associated with one-to-many multimedia conferencing apps. Said apps
(wb,vic,rat) also work fine one-one and are cross-platform, Win95/NT
even.)
Andrew Daviel