Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:09:35 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Message-ID: <6318931011.20000530220935@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000530142652.14686A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000530142652.14686A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>
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> RedHat (and Caldera) use the rpm (RedHat Package Manager) system for > installing *binaries*. The others stick to standard unix (that is > tape archives or tarballs --- .tar or .tgz ;-) > Even then, you don't have to use rpm on RedHat and Slackware has > an rpm2tgz binary... Sorry but that's obviously wrong. Atleast SuSE uses RPM as well (I've got one SuSE server running, is easier to setup for newbies but then...)[1]. Don't know the other. But SuSE has got one big problem: it tries to be easy. FreeBSD OTOH lacks such a thing as YaST forcing the user to learn the system but afterwards he atleast understands what his system's doing. After some hard weeks, I like FreeBSD (OTOH, with SuSE I managed to setup a webserver quite from scratch in one week, though some DNS and Apache knowledge from NT was there). But afterall, I'd still consider myseld UNIX newbie. And I still believe in my NT desktop ;-). Despite all NT bashing, some parts of it are actually quite similar to UNIX, especially where the POSIX subsystems have got their fingers in *g*. > The docs exist, I know, I've read most of them. Man pages on FBSD > bear a marked similarity to other systems. As do Howtos and handbooks. I actually found Linux to be better documented but if you spent the money for The Complete FreeBSD, everything should go very well. The SuSE manual, OTOH, is just some kind of installation bible with 500 pages and some other stuff. Never found anything about .profile and such stuff... Best regards, Gabriel [1] RPM, especially BINARY, is actually the worst thing in SuSE, IMHO. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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