On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > I have done installs on FreeBSD, Redhat, HP/UX, and Solaris and I have to > say that Redhat is very confusing. FreeBSD does have it's warts but it is > better than Redhat. HP/UX and Solaris also have their problems, just ask > Nicole Harrington how she liked installing Solaris on an X86 box, but they > are better than FreeBSD but not by as much as you would think. HP/UX > install looks a lot like FreeBSD but not as limited as FreeBSD. The ability > to have more than 2 buttons on the screen and too be able to backup is a > major blessing.
Uh, the Solaris packaging crap *is* a wart. It won't even work on a tarball.. The FreeBSD makefile mess could be extended to be about as "flexible" as the Solaris gunk. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message