From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 14 20:11:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from hooked.net (pm3-3.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A58414FE6; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by hooked.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA00414; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:08:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Paul Anderson Cc: Brett Glass , Wes Peters , Lanny Baron , cjclark@home.com, ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Paul Anderson wrote: > Sorry, but, you're just plain wrong. RedHat *DOES* include KDE and Qt, RH has only included and supported KDE/Qt in 6.0; and it did that very grudgingly. > Caldera uses RPM just like RedHat, the text configuration files are almost > *EXACTLY* the same, SuSE also uses RPM. But RPMs for SuSE wouldn't be guaranteed to work on RH and Caldera. There are enough subtle file system layout differences that RPMs are intentionally built for a specific distribution. At one time; there were PAM related bugs that tended to affect only RH because it was the only distro that used PAM. They are different, period. It's more than skin deep. A package designed for the official FreeBSD will also work on a CheapBytes system. > the only real difference is in commercial products included with the > distribution and the GUI config tools. TTYL! Caldera also includes a graphical installer (Lizard). RH OTOH has a text based one as well as DiskDruid or whatever it's called. CheapBytes and the "official" distribution have the same installer. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message