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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:54:11 +0100
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat
Message-ID:  <20020123085411.A240@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3C4DE7E9.561BE221@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:30:01PM -0800
References:  <20020122114500.D64626@lpt.ens.fr> <3C4DE7E9.561BE221@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert said on Jan 22, 2002 at 14:30:01:
> Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > On that subject, why does everyone compare slackware to the BSDs?
> 
> Rigor.
> The BSDs have more academic rigor (though not as much as an
> academic project, by half).  Slackware also has academic
> rigor, where correctness is the most important thing.

Maybe definitions differ -- but it seems among linux users, anyway, the
distribution which is generally highly regarded for rigour is Debian.

Also, a package management system which does not do dependency
tracking and upgrades of dependencies (which, as far as I can make
out, Slackware's does not) is not "rigorous" or "correct" -- you can
seriously hose your system.  The BSD system is closer to correctness
but still has problems; the portupgrade scripts make things much
better but can't handle all situations either.  Debian's system really
seems to be the best of the lot in this respect.

- Rahul

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