From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 16:52:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21095 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:52:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alexanderwohl.complete.org (ict79.southwind.net [206.53.100.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20931 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:51:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org) Received: from localhost (jgoerzen@localhost) by alexanderwohl.complete.org (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id SAA00531; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:49:08 GMT Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:49:08 +0000 (GMT) From: John Goerzen X-Sender: jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.cs.twsu.edu To: stephen farrell cc: John Kenagy , Vincent Defert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux In-Reply-To: <87en15djyf.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Feb 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > John Goerzen writes: > > > minor. IMHO, the only exception to this is Debian's package management > > system, which is far superior to FreeBSD's. However, there's nothing > > ???? What the freak are you talking about? Even debian advocates HATE > it's package management system. If you switch that sentence to read: Stephen, As somebody that routinely monitors both Linux and FreeBSD mailing lists, you are quite incorrect. > > > IMHO, the only exception to this is Freebsd's package management > > system, which is far superior to Debians > > then we will be on the same planet. In what possible way do you get this? Many FreeBSD packages are broken, etc. For instance, xemacs gives a warning about a lock directory on every execution. FreeBSD upgrade is not nearly as easy as Debian. It would be really cool if somebody would take the Debian package system (which really is not Linux-specific; it is hoped that it will be used on Hurd one day) and use it with FreeBSD. John > > -- > > Steve Farrell > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message