Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:04:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: "D.E. Hashbarger" <danieh@idt.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uniformitdy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403165649.1169A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <00ac01bd5f5c$70922da0$6f011d26@i-ni8rk81>
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, D.E. Hashbarger wrote: > I don't like the patched together feel of Linux, and I'm hoping that > FreeBSD does feels more uniform, due to it's central authority. What > do you say? Dan I have never used Linux so I cannot compare the two OSes. I can say this. FreeBSD is a very tight package. Throw in the ports collection and it is more tight. Software installs with ease. I have never NOT been able to get any software in the ports collection to run. I have had to tweak a couple of makefiles to get a couple ports to work, but that was because of my mucking around. FreeBSD has just two development branches: -current and -stable. There is no Redhat, Slackware, or Debian distrbutions to deal with. There is just -current and -stable. -current is bleeding edge. -stable is, well, stable. :) For those of us who don't monkey around with the latest sources it is even easier. From the -stable branch of development there is ONE release. The current release is 2.2.6. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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