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Re: FreeBSD

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

    >> XEmacs rules.

    C> Hah! Look to the power of ed! ed is all, ed is the 'it'
    C> editor. ed sorts the men from the boys. On my system vi is

I didn't know ed did sorts.  Isn't that unnecessary bloat, the kind
you'd expect from, um, emacsen?

    C> symlinked to ed and emacs runs a script that reduces quota by
    C> 50% and then... runs ed!

Well, real men actually use `cat | sed &', and speak with start and stop
bits.  But I digress.

One thing about GNU systems, `/usr/lib/sendmail user [at] domain <<EOTEXT'
is actually a quite usable MUA (a one-line screen editor ;-) as long
as you're using a shell with readline capability. :-)  But that's
really retro, ed users wouldn't know about it.  They don't make typing
mistakes on the command line, and know all the bang history shortcuts.

    C> I was refering to dependancy links in packages. Hand on heart,
    C> I can honestly say that not once in ports or packages has the
    C> dependancy system screwed up for me.

That's interesting.  Why, do you think?  The Debian GNU/Linux
dependency system is, uh, "baroque" and a graph of infinite
connectivity and not even acyclic :-(.  But I don't see any way to fix
it and keep its strengths.  Cathedral vs. bazaar, as already suggested?

    C> True. Then again FreeBSD isn't touted as a desktop OS though I
    C> do use it as such most of the time.

Then again, all the FreeBSDers I know use it as a desktop OS ;-)
Linux is sorta the Unix for people who'd rather be watch telly....

Which is a big strength, of course, because you _can_ use Linux for
industrial applications as easily as you can use it as a platform for
avoiding paying royalties to Mr. Jagger....

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