From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 23:29: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFB737B417 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBK7SbR27609; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:28:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <014a01c18927$f2270d60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Jamie Oulman" , "Brad Knowles" Cc: References: <20011219192206.J5735-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20011220011035.A18793@techsquare.com> Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:28:37 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" 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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie writes: > that and redhat has yet to come > close to a release thats as stable as 6.2. > i think mainly because vendors are quick > to release when the latest and greatest > kernel/gnome/kde comes out. That is inevitable when a vendor is trying to make money. One of the advantages of _truly_ open-source software is that nobody has any motivation to come out with "upgrades" every few months, because they don't derive any monetary advantage from doing so, and they do not have bills to pay. > the problem is most people who run redhat > and linux in general dont know what they > have running. Just like Windows, and for the same reasons. Commercial software invariably tends to evolve into bloatware and move towards proprietary environments, because commercial software companies _must_ come out with new releases regularly just to stay in business, whether new releases are actually required/useful or not. And they must come out with new releases at regular intervals even if those new releases aren't quite ready, for the same reasons. Anyone installing Red Hat Linux to get away from Microsoft is just trading one bad guy for another. The only way to escape the proprietary trap is to install something that isn't sold commercially by anyone, such as FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message