Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:10:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" <matt@fear.net> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: "SPEAKEASY <bvagnoni>" <bvagnoni@speakeasy.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104231056350.2840-100000@fear.net> In-Reply-To: <20010423100129.A1552@cec.wustl.edu>
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > I know what how you feel. I administer my system like a Nazi... > software I don't plan to use belongs in concentration camps. RedHat > always gave me way too much shit, and I was never pleased. Besides, > RPM is a terrible package system. > > I switched to Slackware from RedHat, which gave me Nazi control over > the system, but no package system. Hence I had to build everything > from source, and I had to control the retrieval and ordering manually. One of these days I'm going to try Slackware, only because I've been told that it is supposed to take after BSD, but with the Linux kernel. > After Slackware came Debian, with a fine package system. I installed a > base system--in debian, the base system barely boots, unlike > FreeBSD--and installed the packages I want by hand. This handles > dependencies and everything. Debian is just okay, for me. I used it for a brief period of time, but I didn't like it. It just felt sloppy. It also uses the dreaded SysV init and I hate that like nothing else. > I started with FreeBSD after Debian, which again gives me Nazi control > over my system, and doesn't install too much shit to begin with. > However, the programs included in the base system are far more > extensive. A nice feature of the ports system is that I can compile > everything for my system, unlike with prebuilt packages (although I > can use those too, if I please). The only unfortunate part is that > upgrading packages without breaking dependencies can sometimes be > troublesome. To be honest, I can't say that I've encountered any problems when upgrading any of my ports, but then nothing I use has had any major revisions since I installed FreeBSD three months ago. Another great thing about the ports collection is that everything gets installed in /usr/local. I don't have to worry about /etc getting cluttered, as well as /bin, /usr/sbin, etc. There are a few exceptions, of course, such as qmail which goes to /var/qmail, but that is about it. -- Matt Barton matt@fear.net Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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