From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 03:42:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F9616A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 03:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F55E43F75 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 03:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com (2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.59.31])h92Ag0SP020216; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 06:42:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: Erik Steffl , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 06:37:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200310021641.57828.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <3F7BD017.3000409@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7BD017.3000409@bigfoot.com> X-Marks-The-Spot: Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310020637.39487.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:42:10 -0000 On Thursday 02 October 2003 03:13 am, Erik Steffl wrote: > I just don't think that your fairly general statement about linux > distros pushing kitchen sink on you while freeBSD being more > traditional unix is true... I have tried RH, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware Linux distros. Sure, you can uninstall things later, but the only one that really gave me a choice of specific packages to install from the get-go was Slackware. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato