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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?
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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.


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