[rescue] Re: [geeks] I think I need to change my pants...

[Eric Dittman]

> Ahh, and there's no infighting or politiking in linux <Grin>.  I think
> politiking on an Opensource OS is a waste, but hey
> > 
> > I sold my loaded IIfx with A/UX and bought a Wintel box to run Linux.  Actually,
> > I originally was going to run BSD, but all the infighting and bitching in the
> > BSD crowd turned me off.

Not like in the early days of *BSD, when the squabbling ended up with the split
into FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, and 386BSD going away.

Another problem in the early days of *BSD (which is still a problem, but not as
bad) was the lack of support for a lot of hardware.  I had a Mitsumi-interface
CDROM drive at the time, and the only *BSD driver cost money.  I found that all
my hardware was supported in Linux.

I found the installation of *BSD to be lacking (and when I recently tried FreeBSD
it still had weak installation), and building a new kernel involved jumping around
figuring out what all the different options meant (some of which weren't very well
documented).
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Eric Dittman
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