Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:17:38 -0500 From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Jamie <jamie@geniegate.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Popularity Message-ID: <20100702171738.414425d1@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <20100228185353.GA4307@apollo.podro.com> References: <4B8ABAB3.1060003@gamozo.org> <20100228185353.GA4307@apollo.podro.com>
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--Sig_/1tcYxEya8V9.50kCclSdQU2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:53:53 -0600 Jamie <jamie@geniegate.com> wrote: > o Dot Com >=20 > During the 90's there was much talk about "linux > technology" on the financial news networks by people who didn't > understand it. >=20 > There are a lot of people who have no idea what UNIX is, or > even what an operating system is, but they've heard about "linux". >=20 > Usually, they say "linux is good for servers, windows is > good for desktop" we need this changed to "linux is good for > desktop, freebsd is good for servers". On a similar note as this, I think a nice chunk of the problem is idiots saying their software is written for Linux when in reality it will run on nearly any unix or any thing vaguely POSIX compliant. The fact that most people don't know when to say something is writen for unix or Linux I think is a major problem. > o gtar/tar/star/btar/blah >=20 > In BSD (DragonflyBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) there is a real > attitude problem, the idea seems to be "GNU sucks and you should > use BSD alternatives". I like the GNU, I don't like having to have > 18 versions of "make" around (gmake, make, bmake, smake...) or 20 > variants of "tar". Most people don't know or care about > such things. >=20 > You don't really see GNU-folk bashing BSD, why does BSD > have to bash GNU? Why not say the GNU complements BSD for certain > things? This I would say more of has to do with the political agenda that encompasses GNU and that I've seen little development of the GNU tools. --Sig_/1tcYxEya8V9.50kCclSdQU2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwuZYcACgkQqrJJy0yxYQBM4gCfYlp5EOip7HHJmLfuaq9KoLqb GbAAoIGBUKoQ6d/nbApoh/HDGpDhZcIM =zDz7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/1tcYxEya8V9.50kCclSdQU2--
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