Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:52:20 -0700 From: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, "" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <SAK.2001.03.08.bnehplin@support10>
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|me there must be a better way. I now use FreeBSD mostly (occasionally . . . .|OpenBSD) . . . .|on servers (never workstations) & either Solaris or Win2000 on workstations, Offtopic, but I'm just curios why do you never use FreeBSD as a workstation? Why use Solaris as a workstation instead of FreeBSD [I'm assuming you are talking Solaris x86], if not this question > /dev/null. For me I like FreeBSD as a desktop more than I like linux as a destkop, but then again I dont' play games [I have windows for that], I've found X and anything else is still easier in FBSD than in Linux because of the ports. But as configuring X in linux and FBSD it's the same thing, X isn't made by linux nor by FBSD, but by xfree86.org, so all the tools are the same [I think]. My only gripe with linux, and the reason I ditched it is, because it's messy. It just puts everything and the kitchen sink on your HD, and it's up to you to remove everything that's unneeded. It's hell with getting software from a million different places [I'm talking RH 6.1 and it was still hell, even with rpms]. Conflicting version of software etc. In FBSD, make worl; make installworld, voila you are set, and you are 99% sure that they system will work. [so far it has been like that for me.] On 03/08/2001 2:43:39 PM, "Doug Young" is quoted as saying: . . . .|I did try a few linuxes wayyyyy back but it was a combination of factors . . . .|(shockingly . . . .|obtuse docs / instability / woeful GUI / constant lockups / need to install . . . .|a new kernel . . . .|every other day / etc etc, finally topped off by the HUMBUG experience, that . . . .|convinced . . . .|me there must be a better way. I now use FreeBSD mostly (occasionally . . . .|OpenBSD) . . . .|on servers (never workstations) & either Solaris or Win2000 on workstations, . . . .|depending . . . .|on the applications that need to be run. I use StarOffice (rather than . . . .|MSOffice) in Solaris & Win2000 but unfortunately most small business . . . .|accounting packages here are DOS / . . . .|Windows beasts.No linux I used was even as stable as Win98 & therefore a . . . .|long way . . . .|short of Win2000. . . . .| . . . .|The BSDs have definitely proven to be good server O/Ses but the GUIs will . . . .|need to . . . .|improve a lot before I'll be happy to use them .... compare the messing . . . .|around thats . . . .|all too often required to get X running with the ease of configuring the . . . .|Solaris / CDE GUI . . . .|I guess the BSD developers have little interest in GUI stuff anyway, . . . .|possibly considering . . . .|that stuff is for gameplayers rather than serious users (read developers) . . . .|> . . . .|> The bigoted faithful of Linux won't switch. But they are only a fragment . . . .|> of a tiny minority (you can tell who they are since they pronounce Linux . . . .|> as "guh-noo-lin-nooks"). . . . .|> . . . .|> I heard an old story about how people decide on which Linux distribution . . . .|> they finally stick with. They bounce from distro to distro until they . . . .|> find one that matches their personality, hardware and/or configuration. . . . .|> This is the one they stick with. If it happens to be FreeBSD, then . . . .|> they'll be a BSDer for life. . . . .|> . . . .|> Unfortunately, some Linuxers get caught up in the whole GNU jihad, and . . . .|> then the choice of a distribution becomes a religious imperative... . . . .| . . . .|Possibly ..... I've never given a lot of thought to the GNU thing .... if . . . .|something works . . . .|properly I don't mind paying for it, unfortunately the prices asked are . . . .|often way over . . . .|the perceived value. Certainly some GNU applications are as good as,or . . . .|better, than . . . .|commercial software ..... sometimes its the other way around. eg that nFTP . . . .|thing . . . .|developed by a Russian academic is in many ways vastly superior to the likes . . . .|of CuteFTP, . . . .|however the whole XFree / KDE scene is a poxridden disaster compared with . . . .|commercial X, . . . .|so I can't see that GNU in itself is the holy grail of software. . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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