From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 20 08:43:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA29757 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA29752 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:43:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@kalypso.cybercom.net) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA06572; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:42:22 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive To: Amancio cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p In-Reply-To: <199710191853.LAA01282@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Amancio wrote: : it sort of reminded me of 386bsd. After I install the system, I went on : to build a kernel -- interesting approach to config the kernel : : make config which asks you a bunch of questions --- all of the sudden : the Freebsd config file seem like a 21 first century super duper : kernel configuation database 8) : : [snip, snip] : : Slackware left me with the impression that it was too slanted to : hackers and for the life of me I can't figure out why people : prefer linux to Freebsd -- it seems that Freebsd will be easier : on newbies. I don't know. As a amateur, I rather like being asked a series of simple questions and then having the kernel built. I could probably do less damage that way than I could by editing a text file. K.S.