Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:04:53 -0700 From: Amancio <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <199710192304.QAA00752@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:27:39 %2B0200." <19971019212739.FI11018@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Great, I wish you had told that earlier that not RedHad, Slackware nor whatever rather Pacific Hitech's TurboLinux" was to the way to go. Honest, I went to this computer store, Central Computers , Stevens Creek , Cupertino, Ca., and I saw FreeBSD 2.2.2 cdroms and about 5 different linux CDROM distributions so I picked the closest one to me . Cheers, Amancio > 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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