--- Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Excellent, I took a look at the list of packages in > the portage tree on > their homepage, and it seems like they keep > everything up to date, very > nice. I'm assuming it's fairly easy to update your > portage tree also. Is > there a simple command to do that also?
'emerge rsync' (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-manual.html) <snip> > That depends on what the word interest includes. > I'm interested for sure. > The only thing that turns me off to BSD is the > perceived lack of > applications. Of course I may be wrong, but it > seems like there's so much > more to choose from with linux. Of course, I'm > probably wrong in that > respect. Linux has better marketing because it is used by more people. Therefore, more people write more apps for Linux. BUT, many apps can be easily ported to *BSD. And there are apps you can run on *BSD that allow Linux apps to run in a binary-compatibility mode. Or somesuch. Not to start a religious war here, but BSD ran on i386 before Linus wrote his kernel. Back then, bandwidth was limited (dial-up for most people), so you had to buy BSD on some large storage media. I don't know the exact history for certain, but I believe that Linus just wanted to write something that would boot and allow him to run a console to talk to his modem, so he could connect to his university's mainframe. > I have noticed that the BSD community is far > less....let me put this > nicely...confrontational. People in the linux > community can get quite mean > sometimes. I've always thought of Linux as being the punk Unix movement: anarchic, revolutionary, fashionable. > Not that anyone on this list is, but > linux message boards are > not safe for those who may be labeled a "newb". That is the one thing that really gets me about the Linux community. I mean, we were all newbies once. The Linux community used to be a lot more friendly. Don't let a few loudmouths get to you, I'll bet those are the trend-chasing PFYs recently new to Linux themselves and looking to compensate something. > They're also quite militant > when it comes to the opposition of microsoft. Well, I can hardly blame them. :) Microsoft is quite militant in its own way. > I bet > you there's a huge > difference in blood pressure readings when comparing > BSD and Linux users. > :-) You can find the roots of your observations in the differences between the *BSD and Linux crowds in the following licenses: http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#6 The differences between the GPL and the original BSD license are what separate those communities. I think of *BSD users as being more of the academic/scientific crowd who want stuff that will work, and not necessarily the latest flashy stuff that will work with a recently released piece of graphics hardware. So, I'm kinda between the two: I like minimalism, correctness and the command line, but I think M$ is the Devil. And I think of Richard Stallman as being in the company of the Old Testament prophets, eating honey and locusts in the desert. I may not want to spend a week with him, but I'm glad he's there. John Hebert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
