On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:12:20 +1000, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dave Airlie wrote: >
> Doing a build, or even an install from source is really not difficult if > the distribution's build system is good. On a modern machine it takes > less than an hour to compile a freebsd distribution, which is a good > deal larger than the core of most linuxes. You can spend a bit longer > going through ports, but its still not all that long. Actually I'd disagree completely. Compare and contrast the number of packages available within SuSE with FreeBSD for example. Anand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
