Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:00:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Linux Bah! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910160644320.49012-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Well, now I can say that I have used Linux. Redhat to be precise. Woop. For starters, I like sysinstall better than whatever Redhat calls their installer. I don't like that Redhat presumes you want X and forty different window managers. FreeBSDs granularity on its "preselected" install distributions is much more sane, giving options for sources and kernel sources. I now know how to patch sources too. :) I never learned this in three years of using combinations of -stable and -current. This should be considered a compliment. :) Once a box is up and configured with no more than daily maintenance going on, I feel right at home. Yeah, I grew up on FreeBSD so maybe I am not being fair. I can say this, I like Linux better than Irix so far. One thing! Runlevels suck the bleep out of bleeping donkey's big fat bleep. chkconfig can blow me. Please let FreeBSD _never_ use runlevels. Single user mode from boot is good enough. I know how to kill 1 if I have to. All that other crap is admin nightmare afaiac. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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