From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 19 10:19:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87462151D1 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:19:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA79809; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:18:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:18:49 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sanity regained -- back with the best Message-ID: <19990718231849.A77788@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Conrad Sabatier on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 04:36:32AM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Conrad, On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 04:36:32AM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Feels so good to be back with FreeBSD. I cannot believe the difference > between it and Linux. Linux's multitasking can't hold a candle to > FreeBSD's. No sir, no way, no how. Tried playing MP3s under Linux on > this 166 MHz box; choppy, choppy, choppy. Under FreeBSD, smooth as > butter. Simply no comparison. And the RPM system doesn't even come > close, IMHO, to matching FreeBSD's ports/packages system. Everything in > FreeBSD just feels better, what can I say? You have been a bad, bad, boy, and we are going to have to punish you. The FreeBSD Documentation Project is in dire need of a "FreeBSD for Linux Users" tutorial, that goes through the major differences between FreeBSD and Linux, and can be read by a RedHat or Debian user to get themselves up to speed. It doesn't need to be too complex. For example, you could have paragraphs like You might be familiar with RedHat's RPM system, or Debian's .deb files, to help automate the installation and registration of complex software (in both source and binary form). FreeBSD has a similar mechanism, called the ports/package system. "ports" are for automating the process of distributing source code, then compiling it and installing it on a FreeBSD system. "packages" are for automating the installation of pre-built binaries on a FreeBSD system. The equivalent commends are RPM Debian FreeBSD XXX XXX pkg_add ... XXX XXX pkg_info ... XXX XXX pkg_delete ... and so on. D'you get the idea? If you can (a) write this, and (b) promise the maintain it, we'll be persuaded to forgive you, OK :-) Cheers, N (Doc. Proj. Manager) -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message