From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 1:32: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from osiris.ipform.ru (osiris.ipform.ru [212.158.165.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E00037B502 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 01:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wp2 (wp2 [192.168.0.12]) by osiris.ipform.ru (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e948VI808364; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:31:19 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from matrix@ipform.ru) Message-ID: <00d101c02ddd$7869dd00$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> From: "Artem Koutchine" To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: References: <200010040049.e940nTI33223@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD decision Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:27:12 +0400 Organization: IP Form MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I really don't want to get into it. :) Only two comments: > > Some distros have something like ports, > > but only SOMETHING. Very often you need to hack sources to make > > something compile. You cannot upgrade you system easily by recompiling > > everything (i didn't see any global source cvs repository for any distro). > > While I have no trouble with compiling, I seldom bother to do so. > (the ps command is my code) Why would I want to waste CPU time > and wear out my disks when I can install binaries? Gee, save some > electricity and bandwidth. > > I'll be surprised if you can answer this. 1) Installing binaries is a M$ way of giving you purely optiomized software for exactly your case. 2) I am a developer, not a lame user, i know what i am doing and would like to configure all sofware optimzly for the host and for the task. > Mandrake is crap. Slackware is a BSD rip-off. That's exactly my point! LINUX PEOPLE, YOU MUST FIND COSENSUS AMONGST YOURSELF FIRST! Artem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message