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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <1994Mar18.084355.19503@atlas.com> <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 06:11:57 GMT
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In <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> elandal@tower.nullnet.fi (Ismo Peltonen) writes:
>What do people mean with this (`looks and feels like a beta/not finished')?
>What in Linux makes that unfinished look'n'feel?
>(The thing I most would like to see now is different keymaps/fonts on
> different multiscreens, but I can well live without. If nothing comes
> out, I'll probably hack something that satisfies me.)
>I have yet to try new things with linux (I have hard time trying to keep
>up with updates - last time I got route-binary I noticed I'd better
>update my libs, which lead to downloading about 7 megs, some installing,
>some compiling, and cursing for not to having yet changed my system to
>conform to FSSTND), but whatever I've compiled has been fairly easy. Of
>course having had Xenix before might have some influence in that
>(anything on Xenix was a major headache).
In my opinion, one of the big advantages of FreeBSD (and NetBSD) is the
availability of a complete (controlled) source tree for the operating
system. (A tree that can be found in one place, and which can be
installed easily.) All that needs to be done to install new stuff is
a "make world". (As far as I can gather there is no complete
maintained source tree for Linux.)
Geoff.
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