Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:10:35 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Thomas Keusch <thomas@visionaire.ping.de> Cc: US FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux install Message-ID: <19990907221035.A22137@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19990907154843.A4006@dante.visionaire.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909061702460.40981-100000@picnic.mat.net> <19990906224653.B18294@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19990907154843.A4006@dante.visionaire.net>
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Thomas Keusch wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:46:53PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
>> Anyway, the install was terrible. Loads of stuff I had *no* interest
>> in selected by default (like KDE and loads of other crappy window
>> managers), which FreeBSD quite rightly puts in ports. Oh, it refused to
>
> That is not Linux' fault, it is the developers' of the SuSE Linux
> distribution fault.
True, but this is just another thing which is nicer about
FreeBSD. FreeBSD is FreeBSD. If only Linux were that simple.
> Just like Linux isn't bad.
Not from what I've seen. OK, maybe SuSE was just particularly bad, maybe
I'd get better luck with DeadRat (though I wouldn't use that, I'd like a
version of Perl which works, from what I've heard DeadRat can't manage
that) or Debian, but I don't intend to try. Maybe I'll give another
distribution a try at some point, but I doubt it. I certainly can't see
how it could be better than FreeBSD though, personally.
> I personally consider it a pitty when people try one *distribution* *of*
> *Linux* and judge *Linux* (as a whole) based on their experiences, which
> itself is not that much of a problem, but it is bad if these people then try
> to convince others of their subjective opinion and put it like their
> experiences were valid of all flavors of Linux.
If there weren't multiple distributions, this problem wouldn't be here in
the first place.
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