[Gllug] FreeBSD

[Walid]

I have one response to FreeBSD advocates:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990804

Cheers

 --- Ian Northeast <ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote: > SteveC wrote:
> > 
> > I got a new box at work last week (ok, it was a P1-233) and decided to try
> > something new so I slapped FreeBSD (4.4) on it. I found the installer
> > better than any Linux install I have ever done. Largly due to well
> > supported hardware and the X4 graphical config I grant you.
> 
> I tend to agree, although the choice of software isn't so great (the
> Linux compatibility sees to most of that). One thing which is putting me
> off BSD is the lack of support for compression in isdn4bsd. 
> 
> The ports collection is excellent. I have KDE2 with Konq and Java
> working in FreeBSD 4.3 - it took 6 hours, but almost zero effort, it
> just did it. Slowly. (P200 in my case). I had to download Java from Sun,
> but it gave me the URL. It was just a matter of clicking on a couple of
> "agree" buttons and waiting while the P200 compiled it all.
> 
> Should we rename this group to "Greater London Unix-Like Operating
> Systems User Group (GLULOSUG)?
> 
> Seriously though, I think the *BSD and Linux movements are sufficiently
> similar that we should consider *BSD to be on topic on the GLLUG ML, as
> seems to be the case anyway. I hope others agree with this.
> 
> Regards, Ian
> 
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