From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 6 18: 1: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D2D14C80 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA47959; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:59:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:59:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Brett Taylor Cc: Ben Smithurst , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > > They probably put emacs and all their bloated crappy window manglers > > in /bin or something. Little niggling things as well, like needing > > three CDs for a "base" system, when you can get a FreeBSD base system > > from just CD1. > > One of the previous machines I admin'ed was, for about 2 days while I was > in charge of it, a RedHat box (it'd been cracked and I was asked to come > in and clean things up - so I put FreeBSD on it). > > Anyway, one of the things I noticed was that almost _all_ software > binaries (X and console both) got installed in /usr/bin. I'm not joking > at all - there were maybe 50 things in /usr/X11R6/bin and maybe another 50 > in /usr/local/bin. Everything else was buried in /usr/bin (ls | wc -w > gave me about 2500 or so in /usr/bin). Cripes. Why is anyone's guess, > but I had no clue as to why but only a few of the X apps (and I think > these were typically xbiff, xterm - base X stuff) were installed in > /usr/X11R6/bin less yet all of the stuff that, IMO, should have been in > /usr/local/bin. I chose to recommend Linux to my friend because I am wary of being a FreeBSD bigot, and since I use FreeBSD only myself (except when a customer pays), I give myself what sounded like good reasons to choose Linux. I won't make that mistake again, once bitten, twice shy. ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message