From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 11 14:50:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93F9E37B403 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 21:50:24 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:54:48 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: BSD Article in Information Security Magazine Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org . . . .|Hey, at least I didn't start with Redhat! Hey, I started with RedHat!... I started with Linux because I've never heard of FreeBSD. I started with RH 6.1, it was great, I did not run into any problems with install or anything [I read a lot, and knew the theory behind most everything.] The thing that I really hated about RedHat is that it tried to be too much like Microsoft. It had everything including the kitchen sink. After awhile I was beginning to notice that Linux was getting bloated, and had no organization at all. It was just to chaotic for me, if I ever needed anything, I had to get one part from here, another from here, and the third one from here --- way too chaotic IMHO for a desktop or a server. I later discovered FreeBSD and heard about the ports system, that to me was the greatest thing ever. [i've never used Debian]. FreeBSD was far less bloated, far more stable, and booted twice as fast. It was a project, which meant that there was one official source for it. If I needed something one source had it [ie -- make world :) --I love that ]. Plus FreeBSD has everything that linux had, does everything better that linux did. There is nothing that FreeBSD doesn't offer me that linux does. >There shouldn't be much wondering about this. Linux is more popular than >BSD. Someone new to Unix is naturally going to start with Linux. >Everyone talks about it, you can find it easier on the store shelves, >etc. Then once they learn the basics of Unix, some of them "progress" on >to BSD. If BSD were more popular than Linux, then I suspect that you be >seeing the reverse. I doubt it, I think most people [especially FreeBSD folks] don't care about the popularity contest. Well I think first of for FreeBSD to be popular it would have to be bloated [to support that $5 dollor NIC card that Bob wants to work, and then that $2 dollar no-name sound card Billy wants]. Now if FreeBSD does start to support all crap hardware and starts trying to please every Luser/ Corprate Luser out there, it will be more popular but it will suck as much as Linux does [_IM_HO - no flames]. It usually turns out if you are popular you are bloated, slow, and unstable. www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message