From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 19 16:44:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA09403 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09396 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:44:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id RAA18511; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:44:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA15173; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:48:11 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:48:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p In-Reply-To: <199710192255.RAA11285@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > > Not sure if linux has a network install package however I couldn't > > find it. > > Have you uncovered a *LINUX* limitation or a *Slackware* limitation? Since > when did the Linux kernel dictate installation technique? > > When itemizing the great things about FreeBSD and the shortcomings of Linux > and its many distributions, we need to keep the facts strictly honest else > we demonstrate we don't really know what we're saying about Linux. There is _VERY_ little bad you can say about Linux because it isn't an OS; a distribution is an OS, but Linux itself isn't really. If you say "Linux doesn't do bar", you get "oh, but distribution x which is in my basement and no one can use does". Along the same lines, all you have to do to say "Linux does foo, but you OS doesn't!" is show one Linux distribution somewhere that does it. Nothing necessarily bad about that, it just means "fair" comparisons are difficult and take a lot of effort because you have to itemize every major distribution.