From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 1 21:43:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-6.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3761315026 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:43:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA07294; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:42:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: jgrosch@ispchannel.com Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lizard... In-Reply-To: <19990701202919.A22943@gdead.adm.ispchannel.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > I have done installs on FreeBSD, Redhat, HP/UX, and Solaris and I have to > say that Redhat is very confusing. FreeBSD does have it's warts but it is > better than Redhat. HP/UX and Solaris also have their problems, just ask > Nicole Harrington how she liked installing Solaris on an X86 box, but they > are better than FreeBSD but not by as much as you would think. HP/UX > install looks a lot like FreeBSD but not as limited as FreeBSD. The ability > to have more than 2 buttons on the screen and too be able to backup is a > major blessing. Uh, the Solaris packaging crap *is* a wart. It won't even work on a tarball.. The FreeBSD makefile mess could be extended to be about as "flexible" as the Solaris gunk. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message