Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:39:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A quality operating system Message-ID: <20110825053918.11ad8434.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAE7N2kc8_2r7zDBSNHdq6pYxN-Gnub3z8anzhdoKK78G3rozeQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAC1X_0bP8SeyqMaR68AQPMzT%2Br-isv4h0bJPdtaF3377bQ%2BajQ@mail.gmail.com> <16851_1313817220_4E4F4284_16851_6517_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499C521886E@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <CAC1X_0bs-Bg1VDiaTnXUifGfPKbtAibH%2BzfxV8=RPCMHJKNLVw@mail.gmail.com> <20110825043208.fe201707.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAE7N2kc8_2r7zDBSNHdq6pYxN-Gnub3z8anzhdoKK78G3rozeQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:48:46 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > Sure, nothing human is perfect, that includes the people behind FreeBSD and > also the OS. And even if the OS is perfect, its 3rd party applications may be not. > But compared to (gasp!,) windoz and linux, (not too bad, but it's as > non-secure as windoz!,) FreeBSD and OpenBSD standout for one reason, their > better. In security-related settings, you're _happy_ about this attitude. If you want a special feature, you're smart enough to enable it yourself. This often is better than stuffing all the visible holes and hoping there's just a limited amount of invisible ones that don't harm your security. In most real-life cases, that's just a nice wish, but not reality. :-) > I would like to see negotiate a deal to give us pre-built java-enabled > browsers. A few other things, too. But that's where politics and lawyer-blahblah enter the field. Why is there no browser with _all_ the available plugins (and even if they just run per compatibility layer) available? Or a media player (as a package) that plays _all_ types of media? Why are non-english languages often a task with trouble? Why doesn't OpenOffice come with dictionaries? And so on. I could complain all day long. :-) People complain that some things don't work out of the box. But in many cases, the FreeBSD OS is the wrong party to address. There are other parties who are interested in _not_ allowing others to include Java, media codecs and so on in a default install, and some software manufacturers refuse to support FreeBSD (which is their right, but doesn't make it any better). The same applies to restricted support for incompatible hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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