Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:30:30AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there! Of course we are still `out there'. I started using a

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Doug Poland
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.

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Fred C
On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD has a single structured line of development? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:59:26 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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)

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:21:25 Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Underwood
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 much to

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Modulok
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread prad
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Underwood
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Jon Radel
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. Why? -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Christopher Ryan Halbersma
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? -- Using

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com 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,

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Underwood
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kester
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).

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Martin McCormick
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

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-01 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 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