From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Aug 20 12:38:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D352037B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6668343E70 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id ABK689E; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:38:20 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:49:40 -0700 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-173.acuson.com [157.226.46.173]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RJF84F56; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:58:51 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: Your Chasing Linux article dated August 9th Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:57:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <000601c24751$399e6480$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c24751$399e6480$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208201057.30791.djohnson@acuson.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 19 August 2002 12:22 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > This is because Linux is pseudo-commercial. A more accurate statement > would be that FreeBSD lacks the polish found in leading commercial > Linux distros, because that is exactly what RedHat is - it's a > commercialized version of Linux. (and RedHat is the leading Linux distro) Comparing FreeBSD to the "non-commercial" Linuxes, like Debian, Slackware and Gentoo, it's clear to me that FreeBSD is easier to install, while administration and updating is at least marginally easier. Too many (nearly all) commercial Linuxes think that ease of use means treating all users like newbies. They rarely take into account the fact that no one ever remains a newbie. The distros that most people say are the easiest are the ones that give me the most frustration. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message