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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Message-ID: <1994Mar28.123516.20304@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <Cn1KJ1.9pr@boulder.parcplace.com> <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 12:35:16 GMT
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In article <HJSTEIN.94Mar24111940@sunset.huji.ac.il> hjstein@sunset.huji.ac.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes:
>In article <Cn1KJ1.9pr@boulder.parcplace.com>
>imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>   In article <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi>
>   Ismo.Peltonen@tower.NullNet.FI writes:
>   >> * 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?
>
>   From my point of view it is the building of a system.  On FreeBSD, all
>   I type is "make world," then go out for the night.  When I come back,
>   all my user level utilities have been build and installed (in addition
>   to libraries, include files, etc).  For Linux I must have missed
>   something because I've never seen a source distribution I could do
>   this with (feel free to prove me wrong).  This is due, I think, to the
>   fact that there is exactly one core distribution and an central group
>   running the show that is responsible (as a group) for the entire
>   system.
>
>I believe that the TAMU distribution allows this.
>

Out of curiosity I got the README entries for all the packages on my machine
and the size of source + build space. To make world my entire system I'd
need 4.6Gb of disk space, or 3.1Gb assuming I did a make clean on each 
package after building. Whoopee... There are good reasons for binary
releases at time.

On the other hand I do wish the slackware_src was layed out better and 
unpacked as /usr/src/<binarypathname>/* for each thing, but I don't have
the time sort that out and I'm sure Patrick has far more useful things to
do with his life...

Alan