Jonathan -- No, I'm not entirely joking.
My real, ultimate answer to people asking me Linux vs. *BSD questions is to point them to my "InstallFest" CD-ROM collection (please see: http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros), and say "Enjoy, compare, and decide for yourself". It gets really tiresome when people refuse to inexpensively decide for themselves, and want other people to spoon-feed them answers to a complex and inherently subjective question. The best answer is "Enjoy, compare, and decide for yourself", but the second best, to aid the clue-resistant, is to FAQ it with someone's opinion and let them chew on that. Orlando ignored the "true beauty of BSD", the manpages, the ports system, the install times, and a whole lot else -- but that's inevitable in a fifty-line stab at an enormously multifaceted question. Your post likewise omitted practically _every_ point of comparison, relatively speaking. We could spend the next month trying to argue out all of those points of comparison -- and finding particular Linux distributions claimed to outshine everything else on both sides of the aisle in particular areas. And at the end of that month the original questioner might tap us on the shoulder and say "Yeah, but suppose I care only about NAT and playing 3D video games. How do they compare, _then_?" At which point, I suppose we could close out the month by taking turns beating the questioner with birch sticks, and then pointing him to the list of current versions and saying "Enjoy, compare, and decide for yourself". -- Cheers, Live Faust, die Jung. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
