Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:30:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <73448.932787007@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:19:46 %2B0300." <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15404E@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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> 1. Why Linux has bash as default and FreeBSD csh? They want "command > history" with ARROWS, not with "!". Because FreeBSD makes it so easy to add your own shell of choice from /usr/ports/shells. Not everyone likes bash, you know, and for everyone saying "bash should be the default!" there's someone else going "NO! Tcsh as the default or death!" or "zsh is the One True Shell you heathens! Bash sucks!" It's better to just not get involved in that holy war and let people add whichever shell they want. > 2. Why Linux has "ls-color" by default and FreeBSD doesn't? [please excuse Again, some people think that a colorized ls is the worst idea since the two-digit year field and others love it. For such people, we have not one but TWO color ls packages in /usr/ports. > 3. What is the performance loss when running Linux apps under emulation in > FreeBSD [assuming no sources are available]. No performance loss. In fact, I don't refer to it as "emulation" for just that reason (the image it connotes) - I prefer to say "Linux compatibility" as a more accurate description > 4. Why _nobody_ is making a site like "http://www.linuxapps.com/" for the > *BSD system(s) in order to find easier apps? Because there's already a http://www.freebsd.org/ports :-) > Even images with the BSD daemon are impossible to find in sizes and formats > that would make them suitable for a wallpaper or something like that... Actually, there are lots and lots of them. Check out advocacy.freebsd.org sometime. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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