Re: Which BSD?

From: Rudolf Polzer (denshimeiru-sapmctacher_at_durchnull.de)
Date: 11/06/03

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    Scripsit ille »David Douthitt« <ssrat@mailbag.com>:
    > Note that none of the BSDs offer a slick user-friendly graphical
    > "geewhiz" installation. However, if you can install Slackware or
    > Gentoo you can certainly install any of the BSDs.

    BTW, is there a Gentoo-like (Any)BSD install process? The only thing I
    liked about sysinstall from FreeBSD was the partitioner, the rest was a
    PITA. Just because the mirror I chose was missing the package index
    file, it tried over twenty times to download that index file: five times
    for each package it wanted to install. If I had pressed ^C, I'd probably
    have had to start over.

    After a long long time, I was finally able to choose another mirror. But
    such installers suck. Gentoo's installer is /bin/sh - it at least does
    what I want it to do.

    > One benefit: the BSD kernel seems to be leaner than the Linux kernel -
    > I routinely am able to run BSD in places where a Linux system won't
    > fit - like in 8M of memory....

    I'm running Linux on my 486 notebook with 8MB RAM (Linux kernel 2.2.25,
    no fat 2.4.x or even 2.6 kernel). I am not running a BSD there because
    the notebook only has a 500MB hard drive which is already completely
    filled up with the world, world sources and ports tree. On small hard
    drives I like Debian much better especially because I can save space by
    installing a library without the static library and header files (libxyz
    packages are split up in libxyz - the runtime files - and libxyz-dev -
    the files you need to compile programs against it - and eventually
    libxyz-doc).

    But I noticed that a BSD kernel is built much faster than a Linux kernel
    and does more seldomly fail to compile because of undocumented
    dependcies of kernel options; additionally, on BSD I don't need to
    recompile almost the whole kernel because I have changed one option.
    However, these things have changed in Linux, the 2.6's Makefile system
    works - at least as much as I tested it - as well as BSD's. 

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