[openbeos] Re: OBOS icons
- From: Fred K Ollinger <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
> What I was alluding to was that the "choice is good"
> attitude of the Linux community coupled with its choice
> of license makes it almost-mandatory for the various
> distros to add every lib, window manager, shell, com-
> pression program, image viewer, web-browser, etc. that
> comes along -- then later add the extended/modified
> versions of them as well.
At first I agreed, but now I don't know what you are talking about.
Please try debian before making blanket statements about linux, though.
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 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.
> Sorry; when I wrote Linux, I didn't mean just the kernel
> but rather the whole operating environment provided by
> a given distro.
That's ok, if someone doesn't give you the benefit of the doubt, then they
must have other issues wrong with them as well. I know what you mean.
Fred
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