On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:30:30AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood
> wrote:
> > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> > prefer? and why?
> >
> > I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
> > dis
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:59:26 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD
> has a single structured line of development?
In opposite to Linux, FreeBSD has the concept of a centrally maintained
operating system ("the OS") and additional app
Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD
has a single structured line of development?
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On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok wrote:
That and Linux seems to only ever get the abridged version of manual
pages. When you compare manual pages for an equivalent commands
between FreeBSD and most Linux flavors, it really shows. I notic
Daniel Underwood wrote:
QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1 and I implement and support FreeBSD
whenever I can. That
My preferences for Linux:
I have used FreeBSD fairly regularly since 2.x and various flavors of Linux
since around that time as well.
As I was writing the first pass at this, I realized that many or most of the
problems I have with Linuxes are endemic to "Linux" (whatever that is) and not
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown
> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there!
>
> Of course we are still `out there'.
>
> I started using a UNIX-like clone on my 386 SX with Slackware
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok wrote:
> That and Linux seems to only ever get the abridged version of manual
> pages. When you compare manual pages for an equivalent commands
> between FreeBSD and most Linux flavors, it really shows. I noticed
> this when I went from Debian to FreeBSD.
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400
Daniel Underwood wrote:
> Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
>
we use archlinux (though we've enjoyed debian and the ubuntus).
arch is very clean and fast - rather bsd like in fact.
it is very well supported by the communit
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009, Artifex Maximus wrote:
>Hello!
>
>On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood
> wrote:
>
>> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
>> prefer? and why?
>
>I used to like Slackware but moved to Ubuntu two or three years before. I
>liked Slackwar
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there!
Of course we are still `out there'.
I started using a UNIX-like clone on my 386 SX with Slackware, by
fetching the floppy disk images. I've abandoned Linux for serious work
f
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood
> wrote:
>> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
>> prefer? and why?
>
> "Modern" Linux distributions don't appeal very much to me, because
> they are messy: Missing manpages...
That and Linux seems to only ever ge
>> I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
>> distributions from FreeBSD fans.
>
> Why?
Good question. Because of the perspective many FreeBSD fans (people
who like and use FreeBSD) have toward *NIX OS's. You said it well:
> "Modern" Linux distributions don't appeal very mu
Hello!
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
I used to like Slackware but moved to Ubuntu two or three years before. I
liked Slackware simplicity but its package system was too simple and
On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:21:25 Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> > prefer? and why?
>
> Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into
> using UNIX on a x86 PC
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into
using UNIX on a x86 PC. More than 10 years ago, I started with
Slackware Linux, and w
Daniel Underwood writes:
> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
I like Debian and ubuntu which is a Debian distribution
but that is not to say that other distributions are poorly done.
Part of my preference is nothing more than that is what I
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood
wrote:
> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
>
> I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
> distributions from FreeBSD fans.
Debian is the one I can almost tolerate.
There's
On Wed 01 Jul 2009 at 16:12:40 PDT Christopher Ryan Halbersma wrote:
QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
None, I'm a BSD kindof guy
Same here, but my other machine is a Mac (still BSD under the hood).
> of all the Linux distros I have tried, the least confusing is Gentoo
> Gentoo portage is "kinda" like FreeBSD ports
Yes, I'd like to give Gentoo a try.
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
>
> I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
> distributions from FreeBSD fans.
Although I am hesitant to contribute to what will most
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
> prefer? and why?
>
> I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
> distributions from FreeBSD fans.
of all the Linux distros I have tried, the least confus
QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
None, I'm a BSD kindof guy :). Although Damn Small Linux and Tiny Core
are nice ideas.
I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
Indeed why?
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Daniel Underwood wrote:
I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
Why?
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QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
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