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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2186 comp.os.linux.misc:12260 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!news.unomaha.edu!news.nevada.edu!jimi!maniac From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1994Apr1.191018.4439@unlv.edu> Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User) Organization: Too many References: <2n26uu$ae6@fw.novatel.ca> <2neomp$k5t@clarknet.clark.net> <2nf0fo$76u@sbus.entropic.com> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 19:10:18 GMT Lines: 27 In article <2nf0fo$76u@sbus.entropic.com> kenh@wrl.epi.com writes: >In article <2neomp$k5t@clarknet.clark.net>, >Rob Newberry <rob-n@clark.net> wrote: >>STILL hoping someone will put together such a beast. But until >>there is a way to painlessly install *BSD AND lots of utilities >>I need, it's not for me. > >I guess the concept of "no pain, no gain" is foreign to you? Best learning experience I ever had was moving from a single large root partition to a small root partition and large /usr partition, when I decided that I was going to figure out what the heck was going on and move everything over by hand, rather than reinstall. Took an entire evening, but well worth it. >To be honest, it's hard for me to have any sympathy for you; here you have >two FREE operating systems to choose from, with FULL source, and when something >doesn't work all you can do is whine about it. Why don't you try fixing some >of these problems yourself? What, you don't know how? Then learn. If you >want your hand held, then get a commercial operating system. I fully agree. Both OS's are excellent. I use Linux because at the time I made my decision, none of the BSD variants had dynamically linked libraries, and now I've got too much invested to switch for what would be minor advantages and disadvantages to me. -- Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu