Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:11:01 -0500 From: Rick N <solarux@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: LinuxBSDos.com article Message-ID: <BAY113-W301EBF20C79459159499A8A1460@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.1002181832570.25412@libra.sfsu.edu> References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> <87zl36etg6.fsf@kobe.laptop>, <4B7D1F0A.6010804@infracaninophile.co.uk>, <4B7D6349.603@sasktel.net> <4B7D6F82.4070402@daleco.biz>, <Pine.SOC.4.64.1002181832570.25412@libra.sfsu.edu>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:33:46 -0800
> From: kayve@sfsu.edu
> To: kdk@daleco.biz
> CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; shurd@sasktel.net
> Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> > Stephen Hurd wrote:
> >> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> >>> Saying "there's this really great firewall on PC-BSD, but the
> >>> configuration app doesn't let you use it very well" doesn't really
> >>> strike me as a positive statement about PC-BSD. Perhaps there's an "I
> >>> know what I'm doing" button somewhere yet to be mentioned which enables
> >>> managing more complicated stuff?
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's actually a very good comparison to the best Linux distros... the
> >> only tricks that PC-BSD missed are moving the configuration files into some
> >> unfindable place and re-generating them from a different file that the GUI
> >> generates in yet a a third place on every boot. Once the ability to tweak
> >> it if you know what you want and how to use the software is removed and
> >> then it will be the equal of the best of Linux distros.
> >
> > [Root@Tux][/proc]$man ls
> > no manual entry for 'ls'
...
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Yup,
("..... the configuration files into some
> >> unfindable place and re-generating them from a different file that the GUI
> >> generates in yet a a third place on every boot.....")
I found that a bit tedious too, "locate" became the most used command with every linux distro switch ? :)
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