From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 21 23:54:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tesla.foo.is (tesla.reverse-bias.org [217.151.166.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0D37B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:54:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from germanium (germanium.reverse-bias.org [192.168.1.1]) by tesla.foo.is (Postfix) with SMTP id CEE022758 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:54:12 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Baldur Gislason To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:57:35 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20020122043807.91826.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020122043807.91826.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012207573506.08293@germanium> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 *SNIP* > Not that I care what Red Hat does. Their distro is a big monstrocity > in my opinion, but then, most of them are. Linux is probably a good > kernel, seeing how there are enough mods out there to do just about > anything with it, but I'd much rather see a *BSD-style distro built > around Linux. There is such a distribution, it's called Slackware (www.slackware.com). It uses BSD fashioned binary packages, BSD style init scripts and the installer installer is quite similiar to the FreeBSD one, also they've proven to make a much higher quality distribution than most other Linux distributions (They only include software that has proven itself, and they seem to test things before releasing) Just my $0.02 Baldur To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message