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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!uniserve!news.mindlink.net!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!c_chaos From: c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca (Andrew Costa) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 4 Apr 1997 17:38:00 GMT Organization: Haywire Engineering Lines: 18 Message-ID: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> Reply-To: seagull@osiris.isys.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1-port3.isys.ca X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19760 comp.os.linux.misc:167939 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38421 In article <5i2ahu$1mi@twin.wasatch.com>, Bob Hauck wrote: > >And unlike Windows, you don't have to reboot the machine because the >program you just installed scribbled all over your boot files and >system libraries. Which breaks three other programs that just happen >to be from competitors. THAT is the sort of thing I most object to about MS! >The "run some make commands" thing that you deride is actually a >feature though. How many Windows programs come with source? How >many can be run on machines as diverse as Intel, Alpha, and SPARC? And that is the thing I most like about free un!x. I control how the program is installed. I change some things about it to adapt it to my setup. MS want you to do the reverse. I find that quite arrogant.