Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:24:42 -0800 (PST) From: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "Ádám" Csongor <adam_csongor@mail.ru>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A FreeBSD User Reviews Mandrake. Let the flames flow. Message-ID: <20021204142442.42100.qmail@web11803.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20021204145529.6d753aca.adam_csongor@mail.ru>
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--- Ádám Csongor <adam_csongor@mail.ru> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:15:07 +0200 > Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > > > O Must be able to do stuff while listening to mp3's off an smb > > > share. > This is rather a question of your network conditions then your > operating > system... > Good point. I should try this under windows and see what happens, but on a 5 host network with not much traffic.... > > > > Package installation was a royal pain, as it was slow as, and > in > > > grand linux fashion, insisted on crapping shit all over my > > > harddrive. The final install weighed in at around 2.5 gig, as > the > > > installer did give me gnome and kde, and I did not make any > efforts > > > to stop it. > > > > I haven't installed Mandrake Linux lately, but are you sure you > had to > > install both KDE and Gnome? > > With one easy mouse click you can get rid of the whole GNOME, KDE > or > both. I have a full featured mdk installation (OpenOffice, Mozilla, > GNOME, + many additional packages in 1,1Gig... It is about the same > size > with fbsd with the same software installed > True, I picked the default as my friends recommended this way because of the fact that _everything_ seems to an package in linux, and i did not want to be left with a system without ifconfig or passwd or something like that. Yeah it's paranoid, I know. > > > What's wrong with FreeBSD 4.X then? Why are you trying to use > Linux? > > Is FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE or 4.7-STABLE inadequate for your needs? > If > > yes, how? > I stick with Mdk for its ease of configuration. You urpmi apache > e.g., > move your files to /var/www/ > type service apache start and voila... Of course later it is time > to > check out the conf files... On the other hand I respect Fbsd very > much, > used it from 4.2 till 4.6 paralel to Linux and am excitingly > awaiting > 5.0... I'll surely give it a try... > In linux I still hate how everything is shoved in /etc/, instead of /etc/ for OS-stuff and /usr/local/etc/ for package-related stuff. I also like BSD-style rc system, especially rc.conf and rc.d. Of course, these are quite out of the way on a desktop machine. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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