Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:41:04 +0200 (CEST) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> Cc: <nmace85@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD over Redhat Linux? Message-ID: <20010917163849.I742-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <200109170614.f8H6EVv65208@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Nathan Mace writes: > > > as a recent convert from linux to freebsd...i can give you MANY reasons > > > > 1) RPM's suck....plain and simple. the ports collection beats RPM in > > every way > > Huh? The RPM system seems to work fine. Commonly people complain > about using random RPM files off the net, but hey, that is like > complaining that FreeBSD ports don't work so great on NetBSD. > You can even get source RPM files, if you feel the urge to waste > some CPU time. And of course the most best way to run RPMs is to use FreeBSD's linux-emulation ;-) Uli. *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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