Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 18:34:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl <kuehl@lgk.de> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Extended / Replaced Utilities Message-ID: <XFMail.980805183401.kuehl@lgk.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980805085749.3708A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On 05-Aug-98 Konrad Heuer wrote:
>
> I'm a UNIX user and system administrator for a couple of years now. Some
> years ago I tried Linux and FreeBSD and decided for the latter one. One
> reason was that FreeBSD behaves much more than a traditional UNIX system
> than Linux. I don't need a colorized ls command, I don't need a corrupted
> terminal after a remote login from a DEC or SUN workstation to a Linux box
> (ok - recent versions behave less worse) and so on.
That agrees fairly well with experience and preferences. FreeBSD appeared
to be the much better tool for accomplishing useful work.
> Now I observe that for example 2.2.6-RELEASE comes with a drastically (to
> my mind) changed ftp client. I read in the release notes the 2.2.7-RELEASE
> has an ls command with many new options. Excuse me - but now I seem to be
> irritated. Where does FreeBSD go? Will it leave the traditional BSD line
> which seems to be strong argument for using FreeBSD?
The move is at recognisable, and could be considered distinctly underlined
against the background of the recent personel changes.
> I'm interested in other people's opinion here. May be advocacy is not the
> best newsgroup to discuss it but there seems to be some relationship.
It is probably the best list. The FreeBSD community should thoroughly
cogitate whether it was a good idea to get technically closer to Linux
while remaining a BSD in terms of PR.
Lars
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