Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:27:39 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <19971019212739.FI11018@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710191853.LAA01282@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio on Oct 19, 1997 11:53:27 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971019130710.278G-100000@picnic.mat.net> <199710191853.LAA01282@rah.star-gate.com>
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As Amancio wrote: > Slackware left me with the impression that it was too slanted to > hackers and for the life of me I can't figure out why people > prefer linux to Freebsd -- it seems that Freebsd will be easier > on newbies. I think Slackware's reputation ain't the best in this respect. So don't draw conclusions from a not-so-good Linux distribution, but have a look at the better ones, and compare. Jordan recently sent me Pacific Hitech's ``TurboLinux'' in order to evaluate their installer. It looks really pretty, compared to ours, and a lot more consistent (which is no surprise if you know about the odds and ends of libdialog sitting beneath our sysinstall). However, it was too less tested on legacy hardware before as it seems, so it was basically totally uninstallable on my scratchbox for a number of reasons. The worst reason was that the installer silently assumes that all the world's a VGA that can display 80x30, while my box has only an old Hercules card -- so i couldn't see a good part of the menues. :( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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