Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:18:49 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sanity regained -- back with the best Message-ID: <19990718231849.A77788@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com>; from Conrad Sabatier on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 04:36:32AM -0500 References: <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com>
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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>
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