From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 30 0:25:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2AE37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesla.foo.is (tesla.reverse-bias.org [217.151.166.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E6E543E72 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baldur@foo.is) Received: from there (eniac.foo.is [192.168.1.25]) by tesla.foo.is (Postfix) with SMTP id 69D3727A0; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:25:44 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Baldur Gislason To: Rich Morin Subject: Re: What can FreeBSD learn from Mac OS X? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:25:18 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020830072544.69D3727A0@tesla.foo.is> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org make world > * Each FreeBSD release is, in essence, a new install. The user is > given a bit of help with /etc and such, but is required to figure > out more than a few things for him/herself. > > There is no reason why each release shouldn't have detailed notes > (and, preferably, conversion scripts) to assist the administrator > in making the needed adjustments. > > * Mac OS X has specifically opted to put as much as possible into > dynamic shared libraries. This lets them upgrade the behavior of > the entire system, simply by upgrading the code in the libraries. > > * Each FreeBSD release completely supplants the one(s) before it. By > the time a release is a year old, it's toast: no patches, no support. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message