[openbeos] Re: OBOS icons

> Please try debian before making blanket statements about
> linux, though.

I got the Woody CD's (via jigdo) a week or two ago and
tried installing. I got stuck in that part where you
choose which of the packages you want installed. I 
couldn't get out of it so rebooted and took the default
install. In the end, I booted and my flat-panel was
blank -- the system would wait a few moments, tell me
that there was a problem with X, tell me that it was
working on it, then go blank again and stay that way.
I couldn't get out of this cycle so, frustrated, wiped
out the ext2 and swap partitions and put BeOS back on.
Previously I'd been using Mandrake for a few months.

> They do things much like the bsds, but they stay more
> to letting users install binaries rather than compiling
> things (ports), and resolving dependencies transparently,
> which is really "easy to use".
>
> Also, the default install is very small. If you install
> a package, it will install only the other dependencies,
> no more.
>
> Also, how does this relate to the ports collections of
> the bsds? I mean you can get all your kdes and gnomes,
> they are just not default--like debian, even X is still
> considered to be a huge extra.
>
> Also, note the IBM and HP use debian in some of their
> operations, and they are the biggest of the truly free
> linux distros, so they are definately part of 'most
> linux distros' blanket statement.


I'm not familiar with the BSD's. I've only ever tried
Mandrake and recently Debian Woody as described above.

My comments were directed at the interaction between the
"choice is good" mentality and the GPL/LGPL; and its
effects on the commercial distros that alt.os-ethusiasts
would be installing in contrast to what I think will
happen to OBOS. (bleh, that was a mouthful :)


> I have been in numerous flames here and the opponents
> were all spreading misinformation mostly due to their
> lack of experience, IMHO. obos will be better than linux
> for a number of reasons, but spreading fud about it by
> talking about rh and saying 'most distros' is not going
> to help things. You lose credibility.

Whoa, I'm no opponent. As I mentioned in my original
comment, I think that GNU/Linux is one spicy jambalaya;
that is, it's awesome if you can effectively get it to
do what you want. I can't. [shrug] Yes, I'm inexperienced.

OBOS may end up being a better *desktop* OS than GNU/Linux
because that's its focus (I assume that's what you meant
by your above comment). Sorry if I was spreading FUD --
thanks for letting me know.

---j

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