Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:46:58 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat Message-ID: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3C4E8E77.E3C916C6@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:20:39AM -0800 References: <20020122114500.D64626@lpt.ens.fr> <3C4DE7E9.561BE221@mindspring.com> <20020123085411.A240@lpt.ens.fr> <3C4E8E77.E3C916C6@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Jan 23, 2002 at 02:20:39: > You asked why people "compare Slackware to the BSDs", not why > people "compare Slackware to the BSDs instead of other Linux > distributions, including Debian". My point was, people keep asking the question "Is there a BSD-like linux distribution?" and the answer always is "Try Slackware". Which doesn't make much sense to me. The best argument seems to be "The BSDs have a reputation of being minimalistic and user-unfriendly; Slackware is minimalistic and user-unfriendly; therefore Slackware is like the BSDs." Of course, I haven't tried slackware in a very long time; it may have changed a lot in the user-friendliness department. But it still does not seem to include sensible package management, much less a source-based ports system, and (on a desktop system, anyway) these look like fatal drawbacks to me. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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