Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:12:48 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat Message-ID: <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > My point was, people keep asking the question "Is there a BSD-like > linux distribution?" and the answer always is "Try Slackware". Which > doesn't make much sense to me. The best argument seems to be "The > BSDs have a reputation of being minimalistic and user-unfriendly; > Slackware is minimalistic and user-unfriendly; therefore Slackware is > like the BSDs." of course, the only BSD i've found to be particulary user-unfriendly is netbsd. and that, it seems, is a problem with disk partitioning during the install. something that probably could be fixed fairly easily given motivation by the NetBSD team. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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