From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 18:17: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54FE37B407 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sephiroth (unknown [63.112.157.73]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E64B23ECE; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:35:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:20:23 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD over Redhat Linux? Message-Id: <20010916212023.6288deb1.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <20010916211100.73ac9592.nmace85@yahoo.com> References: <004a01c13f04$378b9c40$5eeaf7a5@oemcomputer> <002801c13f11$41fbcee0$0e00000a@tomcat> <20010916211100.73ac9592.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 September 2001 you wrote: > the biggest difference to me is installing software. two words for you: "RPM Hell". That's the main reason for me dumping SuSE (which is based on RPM) and switched to Slackware. But Slack wants to stick GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment, and all my favorite windowmanagers in /opt when (IMHO) they belong in /usr/X11R6 Then again, just getting away from RPM is reason enough. ****** Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide The SNAFU Principle: "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message