On 17 November 2015 at 18:18, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > > I dissent this, I have installed various systems and on a standard > configuration, especially if you can jsut partition one single disk, I found > all three major BSDs easy to install like Linux. > > The installer is nicely text based, but it is easy and leaves you a working > system. Especially OpenBSD is extremely easy to maintain. It has an > excellent way to update your packages every 6 months, seamless upgrades. > > Granted,I upgraded my FreeBSD workstation and X now doesn't work.. but on my > laptop freezes due to X drivers now and then too, so I'd call that a tie!
I am not disputing your experiences, but mine are radically different. And while it is slightly off the direct topic, I think it is relevant. While it is a good thing that there are OSes that have a working current version of the GNUstep environment, I submit that, increasingly, Linux means the Debian family, and for most people, specifically Ubuntu. It is the easiest to install, the easiest to update, the most rich and complete and widely-supported free OS that exists. *That* is what should be the #1 priority to support well with GNUstep. The answer to the problem "I can't install GNUstep on Ubuntu or Debian" is _not_ "install FreeBSD instead". It's not "install $ANY_OTHER_OS". It's to have current, working packages for Debian and to get them included in the Debian OS so that they are also available to downstream projects such as Ubuntu. Ubuntu is something like 20x more widely-used than any other distro based on accesses to Wikipedia: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1970241 Even tech-geek sites see 3x more traffic from Ubuntu than from any other distro: http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/05/20/ranking-linux-distributions-and-the-decline-of-the-traditional-distros/ I'm not saying Ubuntu is perfect. It's not. But it's the leading distro, it offers all the major desktops, it has official remixes with Unity, KDE, GNOME 3, Maté, Xfce and LXDE, and it does have (horribly outdated) GNUstep packages in its repos. There is also a current Raspberry Pi version. This is what we need to target if we want people to see and try GNUstep. And everything that argues for Ubuntu over Fedora/SUSE/Arch/$DISTRO is true 10x over for Linux versus any BSD. All the BSDs together have orders of magnitude fewer users than Linux, and most of those on servers. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
