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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!yale!oitnews.harvard.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!analog.eng.umd.edu!marat From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:15:41 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5i8lnt$o5e$1@hecate.umd.edu> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <5i2ahu$1mi@twin.wasatch.com> <5i3f1a$nc5@hermes.synopsys.com> <5i78ee$bcs@twin.wasatch.com> <3347c5d8.749407980@news.diac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: analog.eng.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19872 comp.os.linux.misc:168302 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38579 Sitaram Chamarty (sitaram@diac.delete.com) wrote: : I agree. On that note, has anyone used SAM (HP-UX) or SMIT (AIX). I : haven't used much of either, but it seems to me in this case a : commercial Unix has the lead over us (whether Linux or FreeBSD). : Anyone who knows more about SAM or SMIT care to comment? Do they even : qualify for this discussion? I have only used SAM briefly, and it left an impression of a nice tool. I'm using SMIT quite frequently, and it is an "ok" tool. The problem with both systems is though that trying to make configuration "better" designers obfuscated it to the point of being impossibe to do without a special tool. This is why I will take FreeBSD's /etc/sysconfig over any elaborated commercial tools any time: it is just *simpler*, even although you need a text editor to change it. Marat (hoping that sysinstall will become a decent clean system administration tool one time)