From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 14 17:44:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9361714E90; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00699; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:43:04 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:43:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990714182909.045589a0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > > > This is going nowhere, you're just disagreeing to disagree. As usual. > > > > Not really, in fact -- we have an expression for in Europe -- > > we call it fly fucking. :-) > In the US, we use a more polite term: "nit picking." > > But that's not what's going on here. > > FreeBSD isn't a "one-distribution" OS. To say so would be to gloss over > the difference between the distributions that are available, and also > to suggest that the OS was so unpopular as not to be worthy of multiple > distributions. Any time I've ever heard of this particular point being raised it was to boost FreeBSD, since it's easier to develop for a single platform. For example, the NTP people dropped official support of Linux because of the frequency of changes to the kernel, as well as the difficulty in making it work on all flavours of Linux. They mentioned FreeBSD specifically as a more stable platform developer-wise. > > What Brett is doing is pointing us at the dictionary definition > > of distrbution: CheapBytes and WC may not be the same distribution, > > because they were not distributed in the same way. > Or even with the same applications and utilities. > > > Different distributions of the same version, then. > Exactly. Just as Red Hat, Caldera, etc. have different distributions of > Linux that contain the same Linux kernel, there are different distributions > of FreeBSD with the same versions of the kernel, etc. Unless I'm mistaken, the Cheapbytes CD is copied from the "official" CD set, with stuff removed. What you have after installing is essentially identical. What's different? --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message