Removing Sendmail

Dan Naumov dan.naumov at ofw.fi
Wed Apr 2 12:25:22 PST 2003


On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:56:40 +0200
Wilko Bulte <wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > I find an odd situation here whenever this topic comes up.  One the
> > one hand, people are always wanting to split the entire base system
> > up into small packages for each little piece of the base.  On the
> > other hand, one of FreeBSD's selling points in real-world
> > environments is that it doesn't have a bunch of little packages for
> > the base system like Linux distros.  Do people really prefer
> > something like having rpm's for /bin/ps to having one lump base dist
> > for all of /bin, /sbin, etc.?
> 
> <Barf><Puke> One of the worst mis-features of Linux in my book.


I think being able to update just about ANYTHING, except the kernel
without the need for a reboot is one of the best features of Linux and
actual advantages it has over FreeBSD.

Sincerely,
-- 
Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at ofw.fi>


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