Re: FreeBSD

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "C" == C Lamb <C.Lamb [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes:

    C> <religious war>

This is not religion, this is psychosis.  ;)

    C> But it is great! Just as emacs is the work of the devil and vi
    C> is the one true way.

The Devil got a bad rap.  The road to hell is the "one true way."  All
the other roads are Maya, shifting illusion, mostly on-ramps to the
one true way.

			    XEmacs rules.

    C> Cathedral and bazaar grasshopper, cathedral and bazaar. I find
    C> the (percieved to be minor) inconvenience of firing up a
    C> connect to grab a bit of source from ftp2.uk.freebsd.org to be
    C> outweighed by the utility of a single repository where
    C> dependancies are noted and all is guaranteed to work. No need
    C> for worries about if your version of make, gcc or foo-lib-2.6
    C> can handle the latest bar.

Yup, that's what Mac users have been telling us for ages.

And no, all is not guaranteed to work.  Linux 1.0 libc4 systems are
pretty well guaranteed to work too.  ;-)  But if you want a system
that can sorta keep up with your hardware, well, yer in "current"
country now, where strange and wonderful things happen in between
crashes (or even failed boots).

And God save the Queen, even, if she wants to use software that isn't
in "ports" yet, or just wants a more modern version.

    C> </religious war>

What I like about the *BSD systems is that the kernels and core libs
tend to work better on more hardware.  Elderly sparcs, for example,
Linux still sucks air and blows chunks on a regular basis, and
fsck'ing glibc!  (Literally, using glibc is one way to guarantee a
fsck in the near future....)

But then, I'm a member of the ASPCA (American Society for the
Protection of Computing Anachronisms ;)  There should be an "R-"
version for you Brits....

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