From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 7: 1:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3038D37B406 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.226.221] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.10) id A8DACAB0298; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:59:54 -0500 Message-ID: <00cc01c21d19$e51bfdc0$dde2910c@fbccarthage.com> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "David Kramer" , "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Cc: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:00:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kramer" To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:40 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris > One of the aspects touted as FreeBSD's strenghts, the fact that all the > software comes from one place, can also be seen as a weakness. I could > get RPM's for almost anything imaginable, because if one website doesn't > have it, another one will. For instance, Webmin 0.980 is available as of > a few weeks ago, but the latest port is 0.970. The packages for several > Linux distros is already available. > Well, there are a lot of options, and that's the beauty of FBSD, and perhaps Linux as well. For example, perhaps you could: a --- enable Linux compatibility and use an RPM from your fave Tux distro b --- build from source c --- check www.freshports.org and see if it's there before it's commited to /usr/ports d --- look for patches at webmin.org e --- offer to help the port maintainer get up to date? I imagine that one very 'variable' variable in the "how things get done" equation is how much time any given committer has at any given time. And, it wouldn't surprise me if, on average, there are more people working on Linux distros than FBSD. KDK > --- > DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net > DK KD "The universe is a complicated interaction of 3 elements, > DKK D Mr. Garibaldi. Mass, Energy, and enlightened self interest. > DK KD The sooner you realize that the happier you will be." > DDDD - Ambassador G'Kar, Babylon 5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message