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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2139 comp.os.linux.misc:11852 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1994Mar28.123516.20304@uk.ac.swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <Cn1KJ1.9pr@boulder.parcplace.com> <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 12:35:16 GMT Lines: 38 In article <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> hjstein@sunset.huji.ac.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes: >In article <Cn1KJ1.9pr@boulder.parcplace.com> >imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes: > In article <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> > Ismo.Peltonen@tower.NullNet.FI writes: > >> * FreeBSD has a more polished look and feel. Linux definately looks and > >> feels like a beta product. FreeBSD seems to have consistancy where > >> Linux does not. > > > >What do people mean with this (`looks and feels like a beta/not finished')? > >What in Linux makes that unfinished look'n'feel? > > From my point of view it is the building of a system. On FreeBSD, all > I type is "make world," then go out for the night. When I come back, > all my user level utilities have been build and installed (in addition > to libraries, include files, etc). For Linux I must have missed > something because I've never seen a source distribution I could do > this with (feel free to prove me wrong). This is due, I think, to the > fact that there is exactly one core distribution and an central group > running the show that is responsible (as a group) for the entire > system. > >I believe that the TAMU distribution allows this. > Out of curiosity I got the README entries for all the packages on my machine and the size of source + build space. To make world my entire system I'd need 4.6Gb of disk space, or 3.1Gb assuming I did a make clean on each package after building. Whoopee... There are good reasons for binary releases at time. On the other hand I do wish the slackware_src was layed out better and unpacked as /usr/src/<binarypathname>/* for each thing, but I don't have the time sort that out and I'm sure Patrick has far more useful things to do with his life... Alan