From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 23 9:12:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0647C37B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:12:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0NHCml58804; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:12:48 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: jan@localhost To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Terry Lambert , Baldur Gislason , Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat In-Reply-To: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > My point was, people keep asking the question "Is there a BSD-like > linux distribution?" and the answer always is "Try Slackware". Which > doesn't make much sense to me. The best argument seems to be "The > BSDs have a reputation of being minimalistic and user-unfriendly; > Slackware is minimalistic and user-unfriendly; therefore Slackware is > like the BSDs." of course, the only BSD i've found to be particulary user-unfriendly is netbsd. and that, it seems, is a problem with disk partitioning during the install. something that probably could be fixed fairly easily given motivation by the NetBSD team. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message