From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 01:04:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03803 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 01:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA03786 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 01:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA02399 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:57:13 +0800 (WST) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:57:13 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Better late than never... The FreeBSD News! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > From my work on the PostgreSQL stuff, porting and developing for > the various Unix OSs out there, all I can say is that Linux is the *worst* > thing we have to deal with...*mainly* because of the poor distribution > mechanism that they have. > Yep, agreed. > One distribution will have option A, that is required, while > the other distribution won't have it, so that an installer has to go > out and find, grab and install it manually (libdl.a, should be standard, > no?) > Again, agreed. > Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, FreeBSD kicks butt in the fact > that everything *is* centralized...we *know* that the only thing we have > to compensate for is variations in versions, and even then, I haven't had > any problems running 3.0 binaries on 2.2 machines, so even variations in > versions haven't hampered us much. > Yet again, agreed. :) I was using Linux for a year until a nice person sent me a copy of 2.1.0-REL and I installed it. :) Best move I think I've made so far. Having a FreeBSD distribution is one of the reasons I like FreeBSD so much over Linux. You have to remember that there isn't a "Linux" distribution as such, and that point IMHO is one of the big downfalls of Linux. When people talk about Linux, they should remember they are talking about a kernel, not an operating system. -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..) >