Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200 From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> Cc: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Subject: Re: new freebsd slogan!!! Message-ID: <20030905180419.GA23470@pasternak.w.lub.pl> In-Reply-To: <20030905162025.36008.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030905121727.75457.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> <20030905162025.36008.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com>
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twig les [Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:20:25AM -0700]: > And that was obviously *5 FRIGGIN PATCHES* for my windoze box on > Wednesday, I simply didn't wait long enough to post. Dear Twig Les, please notice the name of this mailing list. It's freebsd-advocacy@. It's _not_ windows-bashing@ ;) Even if we are pro-BSD, we can't tell false things to people. Saying, that FreeBSD doesn't need patching is not true. It doesn't need updates as often, as Windows or Linux does - but it still needs them, it still has bugs inside, like every software we use everyday. Just like the "set it and forget it" "slogan" RexFelis thought about - it's also not true. If you will setup some box, with some services on it and forget about software updates, you might end up defaced. "BSD: What you'll probably end up on anyway." sounds good - and it is true. No matter if you run Slackware, Debian or Redhat - you will still end up compiling some software packages from sources, just because binaries don't contain the options you need. BSD has ports/pkgsrc. BSD is good as a development platform. My slogan? "BSD: We know, who wrote the code. Linux - until 2.5.x. branch (that's about 25 MB of gzipped sources AFAIR) didn't had _any_ version control system... and that could help them with that SCO case. Pity. ... ;) or "BSD: we don't pollute the internet with the same binary package for 10 different distributions" ;) Regards, -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl Noise to meet you.
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