Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:03:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907231248470.12396-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu> In-Reply-To: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15404E@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > 1. Why Linux has bash as default and FreeBSD csh? They want "command > history" with ARROWS, not with "!". Because csh has been the traditional shell of BSD systems as long as I have been alive. It might be neat to see a bash-clone with a BSD license available in the system just to get the "FreeBSD is so old, it doesn't even have BASH!!" to shut up. Thoughts? > 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!] There was a thread on misc@openbsd.org where some troll claimed that OpenBSD was so old, it didn't even have color-ls. I laughed at that for a week. As someone who does not need or use color-ls, I do not view this as an issue, I would like to see other's thoughts. > 3. What is the performance loss when running Linux apps under emulation in > FreeBSD [assuming no sources are available]. There are a lot of stories that Linux binaries in fact run faster on FreeBSD than they do under Linux. > 4. Why _nobody_ is making a site like "http://www.linuxapps.com/" for the > *BSD system(s) in order to find easier apps? There isn't much of a need for it. The ports tree is there on every system (unless you don't install it). Any application from bash, to color-ls, to WordPerfect, to Apache, to Netscape is there. If you are looking for more information on FreeBSD offerings, a good source would be www.freebsdmall.com. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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