From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 7:15:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A5A37B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CC6691D5; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:15:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:15:13 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who has been pissing Tucows off ? Message-ID: <20010131161513.Z62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:48:59PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:48:59PM +0000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > FreeBSD is mature enough to withstand and reply to inaccurate comments. > Or is it to remain an esoteric market forever ? I've been thinking about tucows and the *BSD section (or the linux section, but that is due to the different linux versions a little more difficult to defend). Why is something like tucows needed for the windows-area? Because there is no central managed repository for windows software. download.net and tucows.com are just giant repositories in which people dump their software and say "here it is". There is no checking on it, there are no de-installation requirements, there is no central place to which you can go and ask "he, I have a problem with xyz version a.b, who has that also" before you go hassle the author. The *BSD and linux-guys are a little more userfriendly because of their central managed repository. There is checking on the software if it installs, if it de-installs properly, there is a mailing-list related to it if you have problems with it and so on. If a new version is release, the people responsible for the OS will pick it up, check it out to see if it all works and put it into their system. At least that's how I see it :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message