From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 5 09:32:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12951 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from main-sd1.artnetonline.com ([194.75.26.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA12944 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuehl@lgk.de) Received: from di-040.hamburg.dialin-gw.net (di-040.hamburg.dialin-gw.net [195.90.225.40]) by main-sd1.artnetonline.com (NTMail 3.03.0013/1.abqk) with ESMTP id ra914125 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 18:31:18 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 18:34:01 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: kuehl@lgk.de From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl To: Konrad Heuer Subject: RE: Extended / Replaced Utilities Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Lars Gerhard Kuehl Phone: +49 40 54768010 Mobile: +49 171 9307085 Fax : +49 40 54768012 Email : kuehl@lgk.de #ifdef is your friend, and everyone's else enemy #endif /* is your friend */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message