Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:25:44 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> Cc: "'John Armstrong'" <siberian@siberian.org>, "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726182544.E1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154053@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>; from Radu-Cristian FOTESCU on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:40:44AM %2B0300 References: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154053@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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* Radu-Cristian FOTESCU (rfotescu@idsrom.com) [990726 13:15]: > It in _NOT_ a "too much assumption on end user hardware configs" to assume > it has a color-able terminal, in order to see "ls-color" running! > > And... it's too bad FreeBSD community is _that_ conservative and doesn't > make a 5-minute change in installation's _DEFAULTS_ that could attract 50% > of Linux community to FreeBSD! > > I saw that stupid "ls-NONcolour" default on RedHat3.0.3 [I was coming from > Slackware 3.0 at the time] and I fixed it in 3 minutes, but I'm still > wondering: why should 90% of users being _forced_ to do this? Or... are you > assuming that a Hercules card is the most usual today? Or an antique VT > unable to display colour? The keywords here are: basic functionality - FreeBSD works great as is without enforcing custom stuff down someone's throat customisability(sp?) - /usr/ports and the packages will allow the users whom do wish to use colorls or bash or ... That's BSD for you, it gives you basic functionality at sublimal levels with the ability to customise as if it's a Linux distribution [don't shoot me for that comparison guys ;)] Matter of philosophy I guess... -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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