Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:27:12 +0400 From: "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@ipform.ru> To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD decision Message-ID: <00d101c02ddd$7869dd00$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> References: <200010040049.e940nTI33223@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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Hi! I really don't want to get into it. :) Only two comments: > > Some distros have something like ports, > > but only SOMETHING. Very often you need to hack sources to make > > something compile. You cannot upgrade you system easily by recompiling > > everything (i didn't see any global source cvs repository for any distro). > > While I have no trouble with compiling, I seldom bother to do so. > (the ps command is my code) Why would I want to waste CPU time > and wear out my disks when I can install binaries? Gee, save some > electricity and bandwidth. > > I'll be surprised if you can answer this. 1) Installing binaries is a M$ way of giving you purely optiomized software for exactly your case. 2) I am a developer, not a lame user, i know what i am doing and would like to configure all sofware optimzly for the host and for the task. > Mandrake is crap. Slackware is a BSD rip-off. That's exactly my point! LINUX PEOPLE, YOU MUST FIND COSENSUS AMONGST YOURSELF FIRST! Artem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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