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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 22 Mar 1994 12:41:45 +0100
Organization: Private U**X site; member IN e.V.
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Message-ID: <2mmlhpINNc3s@bonnie.sax.de>
References: <1994Mar18.084355.19503@atlas.com> <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi>
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elandal@tower.nullnet.fi (Ismo Peltonen) writes:
> Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com) wrote:
>> * 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.
Q:
>What do people mean with this (`looks and feels like a beta/not finished')?
>What in Linux makes that unfinished look'n'feel?
...
A:
> (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)...
What you're describing there *is* the ``beta look'n feel''. Inacceptable
for a release. Not that FreeBSD doesn't need beta's or development -
but people getting a release are not suspected to run into those upgrade-
by-the-patch-of-the-day troubles.
With {Free,Net}BSD, you can easily live with one distribution on a fairly
stable basis. Unless you really need the new features of an upcoming
release, you might stay with your old one until the new stuff is out
of beta. (Though i'm running a FreeBSD-almost-current at home for
development purposes, i'm just sitting on a box that ran the 1.0-GAMMA(!)
version for quarter of a year, it was quite stable with average uptimes
of 14 days or more.)
--
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