From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 7 16:40:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FBB315172 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11OSVg-0007sl-00; Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:10:36 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11OSVf-0005mO-00; Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:10:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:10:35 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Thomas Keusch Cc: US FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux install Message-ID: <19990907221035.A22137@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990906224653.B18294@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19990907154843.A4006@dante.visionaire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990907154843.A4006@dante.visionaire.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message