Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:34:47 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Reid Linnemann <lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Convince me, please! Message-ID: <46BB5E47.4060201@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070809175614.GA12755@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <46BA9682.7020203@ix.netcom.com> <20070809140617.GB10705@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20070809185248.J71656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20070809173032.GB12072@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <46BB4FE0.5060500@cs.okstate.edu> <20070809175614.GA12755@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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Written by David Kelly on 08/09/07 12:56>> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:33:20PM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote: >> Written by David Kelly on 08/09/07 12:30>> >>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:54:37PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>>> For the best user experience, and Unix too: MacOS X. >>>> a very little unix (few tools and kernel) + lots of bulky overhead ... >>> Try it, you will find otherwise. The user interface works without >>> hassle. MacOS X comes with more standard utilities than does FreeBSD, >>> for instance procmail, fetchmail, sqlite3, Apache, php 4.4.7, ... >> Not that I'm against your argument that OS X is a good system, but since >> when are 3rd party services standard utilities? > > What "standard utility" in FreeBSD didn't start somewhere outside of > BSD? > I'm not talking about origins, I'm talking about maintainers. The software you've listed are maintained by third parties not affiliated with either operating system, so I don't see how you can consider them "standard utilities".
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