On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:15:52PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > the end. Take Gentoo Linux: it's a Linux distribution riddled with > choices -- so many bloody choices that one has to make to get a > working system, that just one library going south with the wrong > option can set you back hours or days in order to get up and going > again... we shouldn't go down that road or we'll just be begging for > pain, if not from a support end, then from a user endpoint because > we'll be more efficient manufacturers of rope than ever before, and > users will be isolated from folks trying to reproduce their issues. As a FBSD user I'm really happy with the current balance between freedom of choice and order. This was the thing that attracted me first to FBSD (v 4.9), after being thoroughly confused by linux anarchy. >From my point of view this is the ideal balance, and this is what makes FBSD stand apart from linux and other BSDs. Too much choice is not always a good thing. yours anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423Received on Fri Jan 16 2009 - 09:25:18 UTC
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