Re: If you used Linux before why did you switch to FreeBSD?
From: Rudolf Polzer (usenet_at_durchnull.ath.cx)
Date: 10/14/05
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:52:00 +0000 (UTC)
»jpd« <read_the_sig@do.not.spam.it.invalid> wrote:
> Begin <slrndkti6f.j8d.usenet@message-id.durchnull.ath.cx>
> On 2005-10-13, Rudolf Polzer <usenet@durchnull.ath.cx> wrote:
> > There were even incompatible changes from 2.6.8 to 2.6.8.1 (a WLAN
> > driver didn't compile any more because lots of network interface stuff
> > have changed).
>
> That's no big deal. There are three mutually incompatible wlan driver
> sets in linux anyway. Or at least there used to be. :-)
Yes, and those who have to use one of the two not integrated in the
kernel will get these problems.
Like me (wlan-ng, prism2/USB). Unfortunately FreeBSD 6 also does not
support that.
> [snippety]
> > That depends on what you call the "baseline".
>
> ``It should just work hmkay?'' <fx action="runs away" />
Hehe, but it depends on what YOU call "hmkay".
> > I'm talking about a single desktop system - so it's about "FreeBSD on
> > the desktop".
>
> All the dependencies can get to you, true. Still, you can easily pack
> up everything you've installed into packages so you can roll-back
> any botched installation attempt. Don't forget backups of the etc
> directories though. To me even then the fine grained control outweighs
> the ease of using someone elses packaging.
ACK, and that's why I use FreeBSD for my main desktop. For trying out if
I need some software, I first install it on my Debian notebook if it's
too large and let FreeBSD compile it over night if I want it.
> > Of course you all have time to build a full OpenOffice/kword/AbiWord
> > just to check if it can read a given M$ Word document or if you have to
> > ask for a PDF version instead.
>
> Nooo... I invested (more) time in reading _Unix Text Processing_. Much
> more fun and much less bloat.
Of course, and I am preferring LaTeX. But it does not help you with
strange document formats people send you.
> I don't have to ``be compatible'' with anyone else --beyond xpdf-- so
> I can write my own macros complete with letterheads and footers and
> whatnot. roff input may be arcane, it certainly is scriptable.
Or that...
> I loathe and fear having to compile *yet another* gooy-support-library
> (qt comes to mind, there are others) that take longer than building
> world, kernel, Xorg, and firefox. Nevermind the apps that rely on them.
> My solution is not needing them. This *usually* works.
Well, for me Firefox has become far too slow. In version 0.8 it was
quite fast. But now with five open tabs, it's slow as hell. So I am
currently using Konqueror. I was quite surprised that the bloatmonster
Konqueror beats Firefox in speed.
-- Elfen Lied ist gewaltverherrlichend. Vor allem, was da so alles brutalst niedergemetzelt, grausamst in Stücke gerissen und bei lebendigem Leibe zerschnitten, zersägt, zerhackt wird... es wäre nicht übertrieben, zu sagen: "Boldly splitting German composites that no man had split before"
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