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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.ridgecrest.ca.us!owens!gspiegel From: gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us (Greg Spiegelberg) Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?] Message-ID: <CzEH7K.CMA@ridgecrest.ca.us> Sender: usenet@ridgecrest.ca.us (Ridgenet Usenet admin) Organization: Science Applications International Corporation References: <3a9205$bqj@mall.sinica.edu.tw> <BENJY.94Nov15074901@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> <JKH.94Nov15045849@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 07:09:20 GMT Lines: 34 In article <JKH.94Nov15045849@freefall.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> wrote: >Hey! Please, don't tar us all with the same brush! Have you *looked* >at the FreeBSD 2.0A install? I think you'll agree that we're at least >moving in the right direction. Likewise, have you looked at the >history with FreeBSD packages? We're _very much_ interested in >providing precompiled binaries, thank you, and I've personally >invested quite a bit of work into this area! It's hardly accurate to >say that I share this attitude, and I'd like to at least think that my >attitude has at least some visible impact on the direction of FreeBSD. Well, it has been said that running a binary compiled on a [1234]86 on a Pentium is inefficient so it would be better to recompile if you were on a Pentium. Another thing is precompiled binaries don't always have everything you want in them. I know at first, emacs was quite intimidating but a binary compiled without the --with-x11 and --with-x-toolkit immediately gets the mv emacs /dev/null and I recompile. Numerous other programs are the same. Likewise, if a binary is dynamically linked and you don't happen to have the same lib's (Xaw, Motif, etc...) you'd be one hurtin' pup. So I guess I'm just saying that is it *nice* to be able to get around a Makefile/config.h/whever-the-src-comes with so you can customize. -- ---- Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg Advocate of NetBSD, Linux, gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us and generally anything but M$DOS, gspiegel@archimedes.vislab.navy.mil the Clintons and Gov't Health Care My views are hardly reasonable or credible thus are contrary to others including SAIC's.