Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-28 Thread Denis Troshin
Hi! I have FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. For example, rm - 410 268 bytes, mv - 407 568 bytes, date - 423 748 bytes. Do they really contain only necessary code or have more than a half of trash? If you think my question is very stupid to answer, pleas

Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-08-30 Thread Denis Troshin
Hi! Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to FreeBSD? Are ther

Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-01 Thread Denis Troshin
Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other unix-systems) to an ugly monster. For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I install require them. Does exist a programming under unix