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From: elandal@tower.nullnet.fi (Ismo Peltonen)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 03:25:21 GMT
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In article <1994Mar18.084355.19503@atlas.com>
Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com) wrote:
> I have been running Linux (Slackware 1.1.1) on my 486 at home for
> several months, and although most of my experiences have been positive,
> I felt that Linux was lacking in some areas, so I decides to look at
> FreeBSD.
[...]
> * FreeBSD has a more polished look and feel. Linux definately looks and
> feels like a beta product. FreeBSD seems to have consistancy where
> Linux does not.
What do people mean with this (`looks and feels like a beta/not finished')?
What in Linux makes that unfinished look'n'feel?
(The thing I most would like to see now is different keymaps/fonts on
different multiscreens, but I can well live without. If nothing comes
out, I'll probably hack something that satisfies me.)
I have yet to try new things with linux (I have hard time trying to keep
up with updates - last time I got route-binary I noticed I'd better
update my libs, which lead to downloading about 7 megs, some installing,
some compiling, and cursing for not to having yet changed my system to
conform to FSSTND), but whatever I've compiled has been fairly easy. Of
course having had Xenix before might have some influence in that
(anything on Xenix was a major headache).
> brantk@atlas.com | "Electricity is made up of very small particles called
> Atlas Telecom | electrons, which you cannot see unless you have been
> Portland, OR | drinking."
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