From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 2 00:30:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFAE106564A for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:30:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B916C8FC17 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A56EB5305; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:30:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B249E450D0; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:30:32 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Xr1af+cJLcDZ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:30:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl177-174.kln.forthnet.gr [62.1.250.174]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81687450C6; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:30:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n620UVg6002900; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:30:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n620UU6T002899; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:30:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Daniel Underwood References: Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:30:30 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Daniel Underwood's message of "Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400") Message-ID: <87y6r8x6xl.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:30:34 -0000 On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? > > I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux > distributions from FreeBSD fans. Debian is the one I can almost tolerate. There's a special place in hell for the people who write the source of code of horrible, terrifying, ugly things like iptables and the default packaging of GNU Emacs in Debian, but it's the one that I can tune a bit to match my preferences :-)