__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 02 June 2006 23:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:33:23 +0100
> <1396545.KdxUUuojIy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> This is a funny new site:
>>
>> http://linuxorbsd.com/
>
> *grin*
>
> Your score is: 0% right!
really? u got 0? omg!!! me 2!!!!!!!
> [OSDisc.com ad]
>
> As anyone can clearly tell, both BSD and Linux are equally adept at
> performing all of these tasks! Yes, there are differences but most
> people can't even tell you what they are.
>
> So STFU already.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What if I visited the site being a BSD user?
>> Reminds me of:
>>
>> http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ (Linux distribution chooser)
>
> Hm. Slackware and Gentoo. :-) "Does not have application library"??
> This one at least looks vaguely useful; the linuxorbsd.com site just
> looks like it makes a point (and it's a good point too, for the
> intersection of the BSD and Linux hardware sets; both are equally adept
> at software, AFAIK).
But GNOME (and maybe KDE as well) were said to have some quirks when strapped
onto FreeBSD, due to negligence. I am fairly sure that in a practical
settings, for desktop users at least, nothing will be be gained by switch to
BSD. If anything, some will be lost.
Best wishes,
Roy
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