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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!mp.cs.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!superdec.uni.uiuc.edu!mbandy From: mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?] Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:01:03 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3ah1sv$qqj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3a9205$bqj@mall.sinica.edu.tw> <BENJY.94Nov15074901@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> <UWP.94Nov17173358@hydmech.fb12.tu-berlin.de> <3ah068$a8n@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: superdec.uni.uiuc.edu rpritz@panix.com (richard) writes: >Udo Wolter (uwp@hydmech.fb12.tu-berlin.de) wrote: >: In article <BENJY.94Nov15074901@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> benjy@ai.mit.edu (Benjamin B. Thomas) writes: >: »My suggestions for improving BSD's user base: >: » >: »1) Make it easy to install the system and a complete binary set of every >: »program anyone would ever want to run. Make sure that binaries of the >: »newest versions of these programs are announced on the bsd.announce. >: Easy installing is ok. But binaries which weren not needed by the system have >: to be extra ! I don't want to have every damned shit as binary in the standard >: distribution. If I need it I'll get it. If I get it as binary or source doesn't >: matter, so should exist ! >I believe that the slackware linux distribution gives you a menu, and you can >install as much or as little as you want, from a base operating system to a >bloated disk full of everything under the sun. This type of approach >allows for easy installation, without forcing you to take every damned shit >binary. It would be nice if FreeBSD adopted this approach (or, to be more >precise, someone created such a package) I would deal with this, if someone will answer my kernel question in .questions. I have plenty of UNIX experience, just not BSD. -- Matt Bandy <mbandy@uni.uiuc.edu>