I found BSD-style scripts much simpler than sys V; you don't have a bunch of directories and files lying around on FreeBSD and Slackware Linux. I also love the two "runlevels" of FreeBSD; single-user and multiuser, isn't that clear?:-)
You've forgotten the XP thing. It was kind of "Error. Can't delete that file. It's being used by someone."
As far as I remember the only way to avoid that was waiting hours or rebooting. It should be really annonying for Windows users.
This guy invented the CTRL+ALT+DEL combination and Microsoft bought it and included it on Windows. BTW, has kill -9 been ported to Windows? Sometimes the magic combination doesn't work.
I agree with you. It's worth. Just install FreeBSD and/or Linux on all desktops and servers excepting those that need to access some Windows-only stuff. Buying Macs is also worth.
You're right. If I were Netcraft, I would have included FreeBSD. I know FreeBSD is not Linux but both are open source, so they have something in common.
If you like compiling, FreeBSD is also a good choice. Have you heard about the FreeBSD ports? FreeBSD has to ways of installing software - packages or ports. The ports are directories with makefiles and stuff. Both systems the ports and packages autoresolve dependencies as well.
Ports: As easy as cd/usr/ports/java/jdk13 && make install clean
Packages: pkg_add -vr something
There are more than 10,000 ports!
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
Another good thing about FreeBSD is that you won't have a bunch of kernels + gnu things + lots of differentes libs; FreeBSD is a consistent complete OS. You can also upgrade your entire system by compiling the kernel and the userland. The FreeBSD Handbook is a great book too;
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/index.html
On my PC, FreeBSD is the fastest OS, then Slackware Linux.:-)
OS X seems better than FreeBSD, Linux and Windows on the desktop. I would feel guilty if were using Windows. That wouldn't happen if I were using Mac OS X.
Slackware is pretty easy to install and configure. The point is that there are few tgz packages so you gotta roll own your tgz packages compiling stuff. That's no problem if you're willing to do that kind of stuff.
Debian is hard to install, harder to configure than Slackware and FreeBSD, and easy to install/upgrade new packages. BTW, they should add mplayer:-) For the desktop, Debian stable is too outdated and things testing/unstable get broken very often. Using Debian stable as a server would be OK but I guess that there are better choices such as FreeBSD. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of having apt-get but doesn't work as advertised; you tell it to remove something and it does remove it and installs something related to what you've just uninstalled. I think Debian is a great project but it's a little bit chaotic and needs to fix some stuff.
This is like the Microsoft's Internet Explorer case. They never removed it and/or gave you the option to uninstall it. Sadly, Netscape lose market share. However, there are two strong players such as Apple's Quicktime and RealOne Player (both of them are better than Windows Media Player IMHO).
It seems Google is supporting Microsoft on the Mikerowesoft.com case. Just type mikerowesoft on Google News, hit enter and you'll be asked Did you mean: microsoft?
More info on http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe= UTF-8&q=mikerowesoft&sa=N&tab=wn
n0dez
I don't know why but Slashdot doesn't like my stories... I sent them the Slackware Linux 9.1 annoucement and they rejected it... OSnews posted mine on 2003-09-27 00:07:36 (before someone sent it to Slashdot)... BTW Slashdot doesn't have any Slackware icon/subject.
Anyway, what a nice surprise; Slackware Linux 9.1. I have tried several OSes and Slackware Linux remains the 2nd (speed, stability, simplicity). FreeBSD is the 1st. However, Slack is really nice.
n0dez
RPMs are not so bad. I prefer RPMs and TGZs over DEBs. It's an easy way to track, install, uninstall and update packages. Well, the latter isn't pretty easy to do, hehe:) but it's hard to update, and track packages that had been installed from tar.gz. However I guess that every distro has both its good and bad things.
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I found BSD-style scripts much simpler than sys V; you don't have a bunch of directories and files lying around on FreeBSD and Slackware Linux. I also love the two "runlevels" of FreeBSD; single-user and multiuser, isn't that clear? :-)
I think that the BSD license is less restrictive than other licenses such as the GPL. Just my 2 cents
The FreeBSD team don't remove it. So, it seems it's a Red Hat-only issue. What about Fedora? No Taiwan's flag?
Patrick Volkerding doesn't remove Taiwan's flag on KDE.
On FreeBSD Unix, I portupgrade or install from the ports. On Slackware Linux, I slackpkg.
:-)
KDE 3.2 is available at your local FreeBSD and Slackware Linux mirrors. (As always)
It's the right moment to quit using IE. Your computer will be happy :-)
A PPC Xbox - The new era?
Why don't we ask Amit Singh about it?
I guess I would run Windows on VirtualPC if I had a Mac.
It's crazy.
You've forgotten the XP thing. It was kind of "Error. Can't delete that file. It's being used by someone." As far as I remember the only way to avoid that was waiting hours or rebooting. It should be really annonying for Windows users.
This guy invented the CTRL+ALT+DEL combination and Microsoft bought it and included it on Windows. BTW, has kill -9 been ported to Windows? Sometimes the magic combination doesn't work.
I agree with you. It's worth. Just install FreeBSD and/or Linux on all desktops and servers excepting those that need to access some Windows-only stuff. Buying Macs is also worth.
The best weapon to avoid viruses and worms costs is prevention (no using Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, ... not using Windows at all :-).
Unfortunately, most people are using Windows, never installed an OS and don't know there are better products than Windows.
You're right. If I were Netcraft, I would have included FreeBSD. I know FreeBSD is not Linux but both are open source, so they have something in common.
I have heard that all PPC Linux distributions support an Airport Extreme card.
Read this http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
BTW, why do you want to run Linux on a PPC machine when you have a great OS based on FreeBSD such as Mac OS X?
If you like compiling, FreeBSD is also a good choice. Have you heard about the FreeBSD ports? FreeBSD has to ways of installing software - packages or ports. The ports are directories with makefiles and stuff. Both systems the ports and packages autoresolve dependencies as well.
/usr/ports/java/jdk13 && make install clean
h andbook/index.html
:-)
Ports: As easy as cd
Packages: pkg_add -vr something
There are more than 10,000 ports!
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
Another good thing about FreeBSD is that you won't have a bunch of kernels + gnu things + lots of differentes libs; FreeBSD is a consistent complete OS. You can also upgrade your entire system by compiling the kernel and the userland. The FreeBSD Handbook is a great book too; http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
On my PC, FreeBSD is the fastest OS, then Slackware Linux.
So why don't you try both and decide yourself?
OS X seems better than FreeBSD, Linux and Windows on the desktop. I would feel guilty if were using Windows. That wouldn't happen if I were using Mac OS X.
Slackware is pretty easy to install and configure. The point is that there are few tgz packages so you gotta roll own your tgz packages compiling stuff. That's no problem if you're willing to do that kind of stuff.
:-) For the desktop, Debian stable is too outdated and things testing/unstable get broken very often. Using Debian stable as a server would be OK but I guess that there are better choices such as FreeBSD. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of having apt-get but doesn't work as advertised; you tell it to remove something and it does remove it and installs something related to what you've just uninstalled. I think Debian is a great project but it's a little bit chaotic and needs to fix some stuff.
Debian is hard to install, harder to configure than Slackware and FreeBSD, and easy to install/upgrade new packages. BTW, they should add mplayer
This is like the Microsoft's Internet Explorer case. They never removed it and/or gave you the option to uninstall it. Sadly, Netscape lose market share. However, there are two strong players such as Apple's Quicktime and RealOne Player (both of them are better than Windows Media Player IMHO).
Apache.org runs on FreeBSD.
It seems Google is supporting Microsoft on the Mikerowesoft.com case. Just type mikerowesoft on Google News, hit enter and you'll be asked Did you mean: microsoft? More info on http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe= UTF-8&q=mikerowesoft&sa=N&tab=wn
n0dez
I don't know why but Slashdot doesn't like my stories... I sent them the Slackware Linux 9.1 annoucement and they rejected it... OSnews posted mine on 2003-09-27 00:07:36 (before someone sent it to Slashdot)... BTW Slashdot doesn't have any Slackware icon/subject. Anyway, what a nice surprise; Slackware Linux 9.1. I have tried several OSes and Slackware Linux remains the 2nd (speed, stability, simplicity). FreeBSD is the 1st. However, Slack is really nice. n0dez
RPMs are not so bad. I prefer RPMs and TGZs over DEBs. It's an easy way to track, install, uninstall and update packages. Well, the latter isn't pretty easy to do, hehe :) but it's hard to update, and track packages that had been installed from tar.gz. However I guess that every distro has both its good and bad things.
n0dez