Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:19:46 +0300 From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15404E@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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Hi, dear advocates :-) Don't shoot on me, if it happens that I'm currently developing = applications for Windogz with M$WC 6.0 under NT4 for living! That's the employment = market in the country I'm living in... :-[ Since '94, I was in touch with many Unix flavors: DigitalUNIX, SCO OpenServer, Slackware Linux [starting with 2.0!], RedHat Linux = [starting with 3.0.3!], FreeBSD [starting with 2.0.5] and NetBSD [some 1.0 beta something]. Unfortunately, to earn more money I've had to change the company, and just about everybody wanted C++ with MFC (M$ Foundation Classes, not... what are you thinking of? :--)) Now, when "RedHat Linux" started to become something like "M$ Windoze", = I'm coming back to "old friends", because I was surprised in a very = pleasant way by FreeBSD! Whem I'm trying to explain things like these to my Linux-centric = friends or colleagues, I encounter many problems. Even when talking to = "WinNT-addicted" people, they always say "but compared with Linux...". Now, I'm stressing in my "speeches" the way FreeBSD project is managed, = the pluses of having a single and unitary distribution [keeping your = freedom meantime!] compared with the fact that Linux is theorically only a = kernel, and the various distributions are really different in matters like configuration files, installation procedures, etc. so Linux development = is quite messy and chaotic and "serious" users could not count upon. = Except for the kernel, maybe, but it's hard to define what's the kernel and when = Linux really became an OS and where you can know who's responsible for what! = Not to mention the confuse and accelerated way the kernel evoluted since = 2.0.!=20 Now, I'm asking myself what to tell to Linux users that are asking = me... 1. Why Linux has bash as default and FreeBSD csh? They want "command history" with ARROWS, not with "!". 2. Why Linux has "ls-color" by default and FreeBSD doesn't? [please = excuse me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen FreeBSD since 30 months ago, I = can't install it now, only Linux boxes are available here and for the moment = I don't own a PC!] 3. What is the performance loss when running Linux apps under emulation = in FreeBSD [assuming no sources are available]. 4. Why _nobody_ is making a site like "http://www.linuxapps.com/" for = the *BSD system(s) in order to find easier apps? 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... Best regards, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU --- Vive la libert=E9! A bas les chapeaux rouges! --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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