Back to BSD
One of the things that attracts me to the various BSD distributions is that they represent a bit of order out of the chaos. For one thing, package management tends to be well-thought-out, extensive and generally top-notch. That's funny, because in Windows and Mac, there's NO SUCH THING as package management -- you install software either from disc or download from various places and scoot around to various Web sites willy nilly to see if there are updates.
That's one of the things I already love about Linux -- package management where software is supposed to work on your platform and where it can be updated in a sane and rational manner. Sure, OS X and Windows have online updates, but that's only for the OSes themselves, not for all the apps that go with it.
Just look at the list of packages for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and PC-BSD. It's astounding what's available.
And while I'm at it, check out the packages for openSUSE and Fedora.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
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